The lamb was born with two extra front legs and three back legs, the Ashburton Guardian newspaper, at Ashburton on the South Island, reported.
Farmer Dave Callaghan found the lamb in his field. Two of its legs hung useless behind the forelegs. The lamb walked using its two forelegs and three healthy hind legs.
Veterinarian Steve Williams said the lamb was also hermaphrodite, and was missing a part of its bowel so was unable to pass feces.
He said it was this latter problem, rather than the fact it had seven legs, that meant it would probably have to be put down.
"It's quite a happy bright wee lamb, he's just slowly going downhill really," Williams said. "To keep it alive is probably inhumane really."
I don't think the lamb should be killed. It is happy and functional. It's inability to pass feces may be operable, it seems to me anyway. MSNBC has an article on an Angus calf that had a surgically supplied rectum since it was born without one. Seems if they can do that, they can surgically supply the missing part of the lamb's bowel? Maybe i'm wrong, I don't know.
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