Irish Farmer Claims To Have Bred Goat-Sheep Hybrid, Or ‘Geep’

The farmer is running a charity competition to find a name for the goat-sheep hybrid he created.

Paddy Murphy, who also runs a village pub in Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare, has been overwhelmed by the interest after a YouTube video of his new arrival went viral.

The hybrid – sometimes referred to as a geep or a shoat – is believed to be extremely unusual…

“I only have white-faced Cheviot sheep, and when this one came out it was black,” he said.

“That sometimes happens. But 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.”

Murphy said he had noticed a goat mating with his sheep on the mountainside but assumed nothing would come of it.

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.