Peggy the Six-Teated Cow!

Our farm could be aptly named "Home of Misfit Cows". Let me give you a run-down in case you aren't familiar:

-Helen- half blind, mean, prolapsed uterus
-Keller- half blind, parasitic
-Ray- completely blind
-Peggy- broken leg
-Ferdinand- cute but entirely useless

I thought we were headed away from misfits and becoming real farmers (totally kidding. About the 'real farmers' part, anyway). Sure Peggy broke her leg, but it healed well and I thought that, finally, we had a normal (useful) cow. Until yesterday when I noticed something odd...

Peggy has six teats. Yes, six. What's normal? Four. Only. Four.

This is not a big deal, really, the biggest issue would be to prevent mastitis when she gives birth and her calf starts drinking milk. Each teat has it's own quarter (because there should only be four) but if there is an extra teat, you have an extra quarter. If that quarter doesn't get used by the calf, then the cow can develop mastitis, which is basically a yeast infection in that section of the udder. Worst case scenario, that section will no longer produce milk, but who needs six sections to an udder? It would be like having four boobs- completely unnecessary.

So Six-Teated Peggy and Poor Blind Ray make a happy pair. I feel like I should start running a carnival side show using my livestock.