Showing posts with label Polymelia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polymelia. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2016

OMEN: Plagues And Pestilences In Asia - Farmer In China Discovers Chicken With Extra Set Of Legs; And Lamb Born With Seven Legs In Kyrgyzstan?! [VIDEO]

Chicken in China has an extra set of legs

March 3, 2016 - ASIA - A farmer in China said one of his chickens escaped being slaughtered when he discovered the bird was born with an extra set of legs and feet. A bizarre mutant lamb born with two penises and seven legs in Kyrgyzstan, has been trampled to death by its own flock after other animals refused to accept it.

Farmer in China discovers chicken with extra set of legs

Li Guanglin, 67, a chicken farmer in Hefei area, said he was preparing to slaughter the hen last month when he discovered it had four legs and four feet.

The chicken, born last August, walks on two legs while the others are folded near its bottom.

The farmer said he is keeping the chicken in its own separate living quarters to prevent it from being bullied by the other chickens.

Li said he has been offered more than $100 for the chicken, but he decided to keep the unusual animal and have it continue to produce eggs, which he believes could prove especially valuable. - UPI.



Lamb born with seven legs in Kyrgyzstan

Bizarre: The lamb was born with two penises and seven legs

Farmer Batyrbek Sulaymanov was stunned when he went to help a ewe giving birth and found that the lamb he pulled out had more than four legs.

However, he found that the newborn was able to walk easily around his farm in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan.

It also appeared to be healthy apart from three extra non-functioning legs.


WATCH: Mutant lamb in Kyrgyzstan.




The man from the village of Kyzyl-Ay then decided to put it back with the rest of the flock after feeding it fresh milk.

But when he went back the next day, he discovered that the lamb had sadly been killed by its own flock.

He said: "I was shocked to find that the other animals had killed it.

"They simply didn't accept it because it was so unusual and therefore trampled it to death." - Mirror.







Saturday, February 20, 2016

OMEN: Plagues And Pestilences - Rare Two-Headed Python Hatched In Wodonga, Australia?! [VIDEO]

A two headed snake was hatched in Australia.
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February 20, 2016 - AUSTRALIA - Snakes are creepy enough, but a python that hatched with two heads is taking the Internet by storm.

The baby snake is only a week old, born last Saturday.

Owner John McNamara, who is an Australian snake breeder, thought he just had twins, but it was more.

From the tail to the neck, the little coastal carpet python looks like any other snake, but from the neck up, that's when you see four eyes, two mouths and two heads.

As The Border Mail described it, the snake looks like the mythological hydra.


WATCH: A snake with two heads has been born in Wodonga, Victoria.




"There would have been two yolks and they just haven't split properly ... and I ended up with this," McNamara said.

The breeder's daughter has already become attached to the little baby, calling it the Twin Destroyers.

McNamara said he is talking to media to get publicity just to get some veterinary help.

"Just to see which head is the dominant head and which goes down to the stomach and what organs and other things are joined or can cause complications," McNamara said. - WPXI.





Friday, February 19, 2016

OMEN: Plagues And Pestilences - Girl Born With Three Legs In Delhi, India?!

Varsha Sena, two, was born with an extra leg sprouting from her back due to a rare condition which affects one in a million infants

February 19, 2016 - DELHI, INDIA - A baby girl has been born with an extra leg sprouting from her back due to a rare condition which affects one in a million infants.

Two-year-old Varsha Sena, from Delhi, was born with two legs, and a third limb growing sideways out of her spine.

Varsha suffers from a rare condition called polymelia, which causes a person to be born with extra limbs, often arms or legs.

Doctors at the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, Delhi, were able to successfully amputate the unwanted third leg at the end of last month. The lead surgeon, Dr Daljit Singh, said: 'The baby was suffering from polymelia.

'It is a condition in which is a person is born with more than four limbs. We have not seen such a case in the last fifty years.

'This was the first case of polymelia in which the spinal cord had developed into an additional limb.'

Varsha was born at Bara Hindu Rao Hospital in Delhi in 2014, and was later sent to the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital for surgery to remove her extra leg.

After seeing her baby for the first time, her mother, Komal Sena, 24, said she was scared of her child.

She said: 'I was scared when I saw my daughter for the first time.' The family calls Varsha by the name of 'Ganesh' - a Hindu God with and elephant head who is normally depicted with four legs - due to her extra limbs.


Varsha suffers from a rare condition called polymelia, which causes a person to be born with extra limbs, often arms or legs.
She had an extra limb growing sideways out of the left side of her back

'This was the first case of polymelia in which the spinal cord had developed into an additional limb,' said surgeon Dr Daljit Singh.
Pictured is an X-ray of Versha's extra leg

The rare disorder occurs in the womb when the cells form abnormally during embryonic development.

The embryo begins to develop as conjoined twins. But one twin stops growing, leaving the remaining developments - often limbs - of the undeveloped twin attached to the body of the live baby.

There are very few known cases of polymelia around the world.

In 2014 MailOnline reported on the case of another Indian boy, from Gujarat, who was born with three arms.

His right arm in the normal place, but two arms on his left side, and doctors at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital were able to remove the extra limb.

In 2012 MailOnline reported on a newborn girl from Pakistan who was born with a third arm due to polymelia.

The extra arm was joined to her back near her spinal cord.

At just four years old the baby girl, who was from the Dera Ghazi Khan District in the Punjab province of Pakistan, underwent an operation to remove the extra arm.

The most well known case of the condition was Lakshmi Tatma, from India, who was born with eight limbs.

A parasitic twin who had stopped developing and died in the womb was attached to her body.

Doctors removed the extra limbs in 2007.  - Daily Mail.