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BOVINE PEROSOMUS ACAUDATUS - A CASE REPORT
G. Ajitkumar, Ajith Jacob George, S. Ravisankar
Taillessness or anury or perosomus acaudatus is seen as a common defect in dairy and beef cattle characterized by lack of coccygeal vertebrae and deformed sacral vertebrae with a sunken perineal region (Roberts, 1971). Complete absence of the tail or deformity of the appendage occur relatively commonly as a congenital defect and is thought to be inherited in Holstein cattle and in Landrace and Large White
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