Lisa the Geep

Meet Lisa the Geep - yes, a cross between a goat and a sheep!

She was born after an unscheduled amorous encounter on the farm of Klaus Exsternbrink, in Schwerte, in northern Germany's Ruhr Valley. One of his young billy goats leapt over a fence and had a passionate liaison with a ewe.

The result a month ago was Lisa - resembling a lamb in shape and stature, but with the colouring and agile back legs of a goat.

Her mother seems unfazed by her unusual offspring and has raised her happily so far.

Now Lisa is booked into a specialist animal medical school in Hanover for genetic tests to determine her hybrid status. "These whims of nature are extremely rare," said the school's Professor Karl-Heinz Waldmann.

"But goats are known for their strong sex drive."

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pleasantmoon2, I don't think so. Did you look at the other pictures in the link? No, I bet you didn't. You seem like the person that just wants to let everyone know that everything you see that can't be real is photoshopped. Yes, you keep up that battle.
It does, however, look like it's going to break in half in that jump lol.
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What doesn't help is calling it a geep. A geep is a chimera from a sheep and a goat - so in that case the chromosome count doesn't matter. This is purportedly a true hybrid. There have been a small number of sheep-goat hybrids before, at least one of which had 57 chromosomes.
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whatever it is, it looks oddly long. maybe it is how it is jumping? will it grow up to be wooly, i wonder? or smooth-coated like it's dad?
cute little thing though.
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My sheep female just had a Goat-Sheep Hybrid. I was looking on these sites to look up info on the cross. The Goat in question is a Pygmy Goat. I haven't found a known cross between the Mini Goats and a Sheep.
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I just discovered our black sheep is very pregnant, and our vet, a personal friend of the previous owners, has confirmed the only male the sheep was with is a pygmy goat. So I am anxiously awaiting a ---? There are some examples online of hybrids that have survived, but they usually do not make it due to the difference in chromosomes. There are some, though...
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