A sheep–goat hybrid (called a geep in popular media or sometimes a shoat [note 1]) is a hybrid between a sheep and a goat. [1] While sheep and goats are similar and can be mated, they belong to different genera in the subfamily Caprinae of the family Bovidae.

May 30, 2014 · These rural yarns often bear similar trappings — it starts when a baby sheep or goat is born that doesn’t look quite right. Murphy’s geep, born to a sheep mother, has long, spindly legs and a set of goat-like horns.

Jun 22, 2022 · A geep — goat-sheep hybrid — is so rare that one hits the news about once every 10 years. Most suspected geeps, once tested, prove to be just goats or sheep with odd features. But Spring Rose is alive and well in Kentucky. Catherine Bell owns and breeds Babydoll sheep.

Apr 4, 2014 · A rare, hybrid animal that is part goat and part sheep has been born on a farm in the Republic of Ireland. The animal, referred to as a geep, was born about two weeks ago on Paddy Murphy's farm...

A sheep–goat chimera (sometimes called a geep in popular media) is a chimera produced by combining the embryos of a goat and a sheep; (mixing the words into geep) the resulting animal has cells of both sheep and goat origin.

Feb 14, 2025 · Sometimes also referred to as a “shoat,” a geep is a rare combination of a sheep and goat. Goats and sheep belong to different genuses. Goats, with 60 chromosomes, can occasionally mate with sheep, which have 54.

Aug 1, 2014 · The male goat and female sheep created Butterfly, who has a goat face and feet, but is covered in wool.

Apr 21, 2014 · The offspring of a sheep and a goat is called a 'geep'. Most of the offspring are stillborns, but there have been a some cases where they have lived. Usually, they are infertile, but there have been instances where geep have retained their fertility.

Apr 8, 2014 · Armed with notorious libidos, goats have been known to completely disregard the barrier between species when an unlucky sheep is nearby. Few of those attempts result in living animals. Rams have a set of 54 chromosomes bundling their DNA and sheep have a full set of 60.

Aug 1, 2014 · Butterfly, who is a cross between a pygmy goat and a sheep, otherwise known as a "geep," was born on Sunday at My Petting Zoo in Scottsdale, causing quite a stir not only in Arizona but across...