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I can't find any legitimate news source for this - any chance this is NOT a hoax (the Jan 2010 Batboy!)?

Legitimate news outlets tend to shy away from deformed animal-birth stories except on really slow news days. Could be a hoax, but that is an actual deformity that occurs in sheep, goats, and cattle.

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Is there any source about it? The deformity?

Yeah... can't remember right offhand... I just have an interest in that kind of stuff so I tend to run across that kind of thing. I will poke around a bit when I have time later this evening.

Good search start would be "ovine facial deformity" or "caprine facial deformity"

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OK... it's called holoprosencephaly... specifically agnathia-holoprosencephaly. Here is a Chinese piglet with the same type of deformity. One of a group of facial/brain defects caused by a wack sonic hedgehog protein. Interesting discussion of sonic hedgehog-related deformities in kittens here (warning: lots of pix of hideously deformed kittens... worse the farther down the page you go).

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OK... it's called holoprosencephaly... specifically agnathia-holoprosencephaly. Here is a Chinese piglet with the same type of deformity. One of a group of facial/brain defects caused by a wack sonic hedgehog protein. Interesting discussion of sonic hedgehog-related deformities in kittens here (warning: lots of pix of hideously deformed kittens... worse the farther down the page you go).

Thanks Miss :)

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