Paddy Murphy said he delivered the animal late at night but realized the following morning that it was a bit different
An Irish farmer claims to have bred a cross between a sheep and a goat - known as a geep.
Paddy Murphy said he delivered the animal late at night but realized the following morning that it was a bit different.
The hybrid - sometimes referred to as a geep or a shoat - is believed to be extremely unusual.
"The next morning I said to myself this isn't a lamb at all, it's more like a goat."
He added: "It was moving a bit too quickly for a lamb, its legs were very long and he even has horns like a goat."
He said he noticed a goat mating with his sheep on the mountainside but assumed nothing would come of it. The newborn has been the talk of the village pub. A video by the Irish Farmer Journal posted on YouTube video has reached nearly 15,000 hits. Mr Murphy said he was hoping to raise money for a sick child in the village with a competition for the best name for his young geep. And he has invited scientists to come to his farm to prove the rare cross-breed.
Similar crossings have been reported before in Chile, Jamaica, Malta and in Botswana, where scientists found a genuine hybrid
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