Sheep/Goat mix for sale

cmjust0

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Not that wikipedia is terribly trustworthy, but here ya go .. My understanding is that the key to the whole thing is the difference in the numbers of chromasomes.. Things with different numbers of chromasomes can't generally mate, and even if they do, the resulting hybrid offspring is usually dead.

The likelihood that someone had two sheep/goat hybrids, and that one was male and the other was female, and that they were both fertile, and that they could actually concieve, and that the product of conception would actually live...and end up on Craigslist...?

ASTRONOMICAL.
 

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I want to know if it is a goat or a sheep. the big one looks like it could be a goat, but the little one looks to be a lamb for sure.
 

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Sheep. Hair sheep, most likely barbados crosses. Love that both parents are sheep/goat crosses too. Wanna bet that they are brother/sister? cute baby. How can he tell that its going to stay so small? oh, the questions I have.
 

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those are hair sheep most likely mixed with a wool breed of sheep.
It is common mistake. Everyone who sees my hair sheep says that they are goats. I just either go with it or correct them.
 

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Geeps? Shoats? Guess it wouldn't be that, since there's a shoat stage in pigs.

I agree, hair sheep or hair sheep cross. Some folks will believe anything. I told a lady once that a silkie was a cross between a rabbit and a chicken (ASSuming she'd know I was kidding) and I'll be dipped if someone else didn't call the next week wanting to buy one of my rabbit-birds.

As if...

You know if I had those, I'd have offered them here on BYH 1st...
 

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Roll farms said:
Geeps? Shoats? Guess it wouldn't be that, since there's a shoat stage in pigs.

I agree, hair sheep or hair sheep cross. Some folks will believe anything. I told a lady once that a silkie was a cross between a rabbit and a chicken (ASSuming she'd know I was kidding) and I'll be dipped if someone else didn't call the next week wanting to buy one of my rabbit-birds.

As if...

You know if I had those, I'd have offered them here on BYH 1st...
:gig

I know the feeling! Scottish Highlander steer got called a sheep dog a few times...

REALLY????
 

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