A baby goat with only one eye was born on a farm in Thailand.

Farmers Amnuay Chantasri, 67, and her partner Charn, 72, were cleaning the newborn goats when they noticed one kid had been delivered with a genetic defect at their farm in Prachinburi province on February 13 evening.

The mutant animal, which was named 'Namchok', had a large single eye on the middle of its forehead.

As the helpless kid was unable to stand on its own, the couple had to feed it milk using a syringe.

Baffled Amnuay said: 'I have never seen anything like this goat in all my life. My partner said it was a sign of good luck. We plan on keeping it and raising it on our farm if it survives.'

Meanwhile, Charn said Namchok was one of three baby goats born on the same night.

Only one of the three kids had normal features. The remaining sibling, which had no eyes and a 'snout that looked like an elephant's trunk', died immediately and was buried.

Namchok is believed to be suffering cyclopia, a rare genetic defect in which the offspring's brain fails to divide properly into two hemispheres during development.

This results in various physical abnormalities, including missing mouths and noses, in which case the newborn dies from suffocation shortly after birth. Cyclopia is linked to low survival rates.