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Six-legged calf beat the odds to become a mini celebrity
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 31 - 03 - 2012


legged cow is milking her moment in the spotlight after defying a vet's prediction that she wouldn't live much past birth. Now seven weeks old, thriving Lilli has become a minor celebrity in her native Switzerland after surviving against the odds. The cute calf has melted the hearts of the Swiss after pictures of her frolicking across a sunny field were splashed across the media. Farmer Andreas Knutti from Weissenburg, which is 19 miles (30 kilometres) south of the capital Bern, says he couldn't bring himself to euthanise the animal because she was “so full of life.” He told Swiss daily Blick that a curve in her spine means Lilli may never become a normal milk cow.

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