Calf With Six Legs At Woolverton

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 9 April 1870:

On the farm of Mr. Chas. Burfitt, at Woolverton, near Mere, there is to be seen a live calf with six legs. It was born on 26th March. One of the legs comes out of the back between the shoulders, and hangs down on one side of the animal. It is about the proper proportionate length, but from its point of connection on the back down to the knee there is no bone; the other part of the leg, and the hoof are complete and well formed. Out of this leg, from between the knee joint and the hoof, appears the sixth leg, which is diminutive and has an uncloven hoof.

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