Geep!

[Laurie J]

Wow! I've heard this can happen....but it happened to us! We have a 9 year old nubian/boer cross who was a 4-H animal, but our daughters moved on to sheep. The goat is just hanging around being a pet basically, and living out her days with our herd of sheep. She hasn't been bred (we thought!) for 6 years. No billy for miles, but she gave birth (prematurely) to a stillborn.....alien! Our ram (the goat hangs out with the sheep) aparently is the father! Yikes! I don't know why this just now happened, when we've had this same ram for 5 years! This really shouldn't happen, as they are totally different species, with different numbers of chromosomes from each other.

I've seen a picture online of a surviving geep (goat + sheep = geep), however, this was a ewe (sheep) crossed with a billy goat.

I decided to call our oddity a klamb (kid + lamb)!

You never know!!!!

[Olivia67]

Yup I've read about this too but had also read about the genetic differences. Do you think a university or museum would be interested in it.

Olivia67

[Backfourty,MI.]

WoW, I would have never even thought that a possibility. Too bad the little geep didn't make it. I wonder if it would have had alot of health issues?

[issylthesthlia]

http://www.yousaytoo.com/make%20sens...-the-geep/5803

If you want to see one

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

There isn't enough cromozomes to match up for this to be alive. I know the ones studied, and we looked all this up on this forum before, were not found to be geeps at all. Most are absorbed, or aborted, even if the pregnancy is term the kid has long been dead. And if this thing were a true geep, the rarity of it and with this mans credentials wouldn't you think there would be a scientific paper on it? Showing via DNA that this really was true interspecies healthy live kid? Especially connected to any site of his? Vicki