No inbreeding on the farm she comes from? Does she have (older) brothers/sisters? Same parents?
(And about the too unpleasant image - monkeys have the sort of AIDS they can live with, so, hm..)
Could indeed be anything, but there was nothing that made you frown, right?

Hennie
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On 13-7-06 at 23:32 Robert & Shannon Nelson wrote:

>An, the ten-thousand-dollar question!! (Why she came to be this way.)
>I doubt that her ancestors had syphilis, but who knows. :-) I've
>followed the debates about whether Hahnemann's miasms are
>disease-specific, or whether other agents can give rise to the same
>miasm. Dunno, but personally I lean toward the latter. What would
>cause a calf to be born this way... ??Toxic exposure of the mother??
>Or just a genetic fluke, or... Ach, the other image is just too
>unpleasant... :-) What do *you* think or others?
>Shannon
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