When Bob Long, of Owensboro, Kentucky, fired a dollar in mid-November 2018 in Ballard County, in the far west of Kentucky, he got more than what he did. he had planned. The live deer was entangled in what had become the decaying head of another male, a dead animal for so long that his body had detached from the head.(Photo courtesy of Joe Mattingly and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources)

The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Department has published this week on Facebook a photo of an unusual harvest: a two-headed goat.

A head was attached to the recently slaughtered male. The other was rotting and tangled in the woods of the other head.

"It is unclear what circumstances led this male to carry another set of wood and a part of a decaying carcass.Whatever it was, it was really a problem. a rare harvest, "we learned Thursday.

Hunter Bob Long, Marshall County, Kentucky, bagged the bag the previous weekend, the hunter said. KFVS-TV, Cape Girardeau, Mo.,.

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Sgt. Tony Dunker of Kentucky Fish and Wildlife said he suspected that the rotting head belonged to a dead deer for weeks after blocking wood in a fight. Ballard County, where the deer was shot, is located in the far west of Kentucky, meeting Illinois and Missouri, about 30 miles southeast of Cape Girardeau.

Dunker thinks the men fought for their territory or their partners. According to Dunker 's account, after the death of one of them, his body broke down to the point that the head broke off.

"He wrapped it up a bit until Mr. Long arrived," said Dunker about the deer and the extra head. Residents of the area had already seen the living male with the decaying head in his woods and took pictures.

Contributor: WHAS-TV, Louisville, Ky. Follow Joel Shannon on Twitter: @ JoelShannon91

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