Owner Of A Two-Headed Piglet Insists On Raising It To See It Grow Up To Be A Happy Pig

By Shehzad in Nature On 10th June 2016
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#1 It doesn’t have a name yet (Picture: CEN)

If you're a piglet with two heads, you might not even get to live to snort around with your brothers and sisters in the sty, as medical difficulties may mean you face an early trip to the vet.

But this piglet can look forward to a long and happy life or at least, as long as any of its siblings on the pig farm.

Owner Zhong Xulong is treating the unusual baby as a celebrity, and keeping it separate from the other piglets so villagers can come and marvel at it.

Hundreds of people have already come to look at the village of Fengtian in south west China's Sichuan Province.

#2 It is very special (Picture: CEN)

Although it has two heads and two mouths , and presumably two brains as well, it has only three eyes.

The farmer said he noticed the ‘special' piglet, which appears to be able to feed from either mouth, as soon as it was born along with 13 of its siblings.

In three years of litters, this is the first time the sow had given birth to such a piglet.

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#3 Hundreds of people have travelled to see it (Picture: CEN)

‘Lots of people have come to see the pig already,' Xulong said. ‘Someone even offered £209 to buy it off us, but I refused.

‘I want to raise it and see it grow up we'll see what happens after that.'

For the moment, it is being kept apart from the other piglets and reared by hand with baby formula.

#4 Zhong Xulong holds his prize piglet (Picture: CEN)