DIPROSOPIA EM UM OVINO DE DOIS MESES DE IDADE

Abstract

Fetal malformations are abnormalities extremely present in the sheep industry, and these are causing large numbers of deaths in young animals and premature. An extremely rare anomaly is the disease called of Diprosopia, which is a congenital anomaly in which the animal has a double skull and brain, also featuring a total separation or partial heads. The present work has the purpose of making an exploration about this disease, highlighting then some features of the disease as well as describe a case occurred in a sheep that managed to survived for two months with this rare abnormality. Therefore, the present work has the purpose of exploring this disease, describe some particularities of the pathology, as well as emphasizing a clinical case that occurred in a newborn sheep that survived for two months with this rare abnormality, where characteristically it was observed a Animal with a facial duplicity, however did not observe a clear division of the cranial box, the animal managed to have an extended period of survival because the owner had provided breastfeeding for this through bottle, and through forced feeding the animal acquired a serious aspiration bronchopneumonia Which culminated in his death.