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Are you trying to tell me a birth defect is evolution???? lol

 

 

Two-headed calf dies

 

 

Bland County Messenger

Monday, February 5, 2007

 

 

Star, a Wythe County calf that achieved a measure of bovine celebrity because she was born with two faces, has died.

But it appears her 15 minutes of fame are not over: Today, her body was put aboard a truck headed to a New York taxidermist who will prepare her for display in one of the Ripley's Believe It or Not museums, said Star's owner, Rural Retreat dairy farmer Kirk Heldreth.

 

Heldreth said he found the 37-day-old calf dead, presumably from complications due to her deformity, when he went to the barn Friday morning. "She was laying there like she was asleep," said Heldreth, adding that he had grown unusually attached to the calf as it struggled to survive. "She really wanted to live."

 

Heldreth had been accommodating dozens of visitors and news reporters each day in the weeks following the calf's December birth. Many came to gawk at the young cow, born with one upper jaw and two lower jaws on two partial heads fused together on a single neck. The constant attention prompted Heldreth to name the calf Star.

 

"Every major television network was here," he recalled, "and we had radio reporters from Santa Barbara [Calif.] to London."

 

Todd Day, a spokesman for Ripley's, said the Orlando-based entertainment company has not yet decided at which of its various museums around the nation Star will be put on display. But he said the company, which has a long history of promoting two-headed animals, has hours of footage of the calf while she was alive and will make it available at various sites.

 

Heldreth kept the calf alive by bottle-feeding her, and she ultimately reached 80 pounds. Yesterday, the dairy farmer recalled her as one of the most sweet-tempered calves he has ever raised.

 

"Once she learned to take the bottle, she was no problem at all," Heldreth said. "We birth 300 calves a year, and she's by far one of the best I ever had. She was that sweet. We miss her."

 

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