On March 25th, Ripley’s Believe It or Not and Guinness World Records descended upon Davidson to certify the birth of a three-headed calf. On Gordon Willner’s farm west of Davidson, the tricephalic red angus cross calf was born at two in the morning. The item weighed 113 pounds. Until the momentous occurrence, it had been just another day on the farm during calving season. The cow was being watched since she was getting ready to give birth. It became clear that the birth would not occur as expected as her due date drew near. Willner felt one, then two heads inside the cow as he pushed his arm into it in terror. He requested assistance, assuming it was a set of twins.

3 Headed Calf Was Born In Saskatchewan

Dr. Olaf Lipro, a big animal veterinary medicine resident at the University of Saskatchewan, responded to the need for help. He arrived at the property and investigated, determining that two heads were present. After the delivery did not progress, he decided to perform a s section. It was Lipro’s first ᴛι̇ɱe executing a C-s on a cow. He mentioned that he performed one around three weeks ago on a pug who was unable to give birth to her pug/Rottweiler babies. “That went really well,” Lipro said, “so I figured pulling these twins out of Gord’s cow should be a piece of cake.”

Dr. Olaf Lipro, a big animal veterinary medicine resident at the University of Saskatchewan, responded to the need for help. He arrived at the property and investigated, determining that two heads were present. After the delivery did not progress, he decided to do an emergency cesarean section. Lipro was doing an emergency C-section on a cow for the first ᴛι̇ɱe. He mentioned that he performed one around three weeks ago on a pug who was unable to give birth to her pug/Rottweiler babies. “That went really well,” Lipro said, “so I figured pulling these twins out of Gord’s cow should be a piece of cake.”

“I was totally gob smacked,” Lipro elaborated. He’d seen two-headed calves before, but never a three-headed calf, he stated. His first instinct, he said, was to get out his iPhone and post it on social media. Then he remembered he had to get back to work. He examined all three of the calf’s airways to ensure that it could breathe. One of the heads, the central one, seemed to be in pain. According to Lipro, he had to remove the amniotic fluid out of the animal’s nose. Others use a piece of straw, but Lipro claims to have discovered a new approach. He claims to suck the bothersome fluid out of his nostrils with the straw from a ᴛι̇ɱ Hortons Iced Capp.

He said that other cattle farmers may want to use similar method in their cow-calf operations. He suggested that in a pinch, a Twisted Sisters milkshake straw may suffice. Farmers should be cautious about relying on this because Twisted Sisters is still closed for the season. When he had the calf breathing, he moved his attention to the cow. After washing her wound, he patched it up. Because the calf was lying on the ground and having trouble taking a bottle, Lipro promptly tubed colostrum into its left head. “Then I realized I’d never get another chance, so I tubed the right head too, just to see if I could.”

After 48 hours of effort, the calf began sucking on its own, but it required to be bottle fed for the first 48 hours as it tried to stand. It was still standing on the third day. Nursing became challenging since all three heads collided as they attempted to latch on. According to Lipro, the calf’s outlook is bleak. A three-headed calf is rarely alive for more than a few days, but a two-headed calf is rarely alive for more than a few days. “Only ᴛι̇ɱe will tell,” said Lipro. Although one was born in Illinois in 1893, this could be the world’s first three-headed calf.

The following item appeared in the Mattoon Gazette on January 13, 1893, from Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois: “As we go to print, a Lafayette farmer reports a three-headed calf born in the neighborhood just southeast and a little north of the Monroe school building.” He asks that his identity be kept hidden so that the guilty individual might be brought to justice.” …whatever it entails.

Guinness World Records and Ripley’s came flying into Davidson when Lipro posted a photo on Instagram, according to Lipro. He apologized for drawing so much attention to the Willner property. Lipro said, “I let my ego get the best of me.” “As soon as I noticed it was a tricephalic calf, I started thinking about how I might utilize it as a thesis topic for my PhD under Dr. Newt Scaɱaпder at the College of Large and Unusual Animals at veterinary medicine,” says the author.