Monday, April 07, 2014

A Geep Grows in Ireland

A geep is an animal born of the union of a goat and a sheep. It is very rare, but it happened a couple of weeks ago in County Kildare. This was not a planned mating. In the "tupping" season a goat was mating with ewes at the farm. Mr. Murphy, the owner of the farm, did not think much about it until the geep was born. It is  developing a set of horns on its head and is very fast.

The ewe and her geep

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