Bilateral Uncomplicated Anophtalmia in a Holstain Calf

Anophthalmia is defined as a total absence of ocular tissues. Anophthalmia in calves have been reported occasionally and concurrent anomalies of skeletal and central nervous systems are present. The material of this case report was a eight day old male Holstain calf. In the clinical examination, it was found that the calf did not have eyeballs bilaterally and the eyelids were closed. While the upper eyelids had long cilia, the lower eyelids had some short cilia. The palpebral fissure was so small. The size of the right palpebral fissure was 2×0.5 cm and that of left was 1×0.2 cm. The calf showed no other abnormalities. The calf was lived without any health problem until 15 mounth of age and was go to slaughterhause