This, That, and the tale of a rare goat/sheep hybrid species in Co Mayo

A nanny goat called Daisy has given birth to twin “geeps” — goat/sheep hybrids — after a week-long dalliance with a Cheviot ram on a Co Mayo farm.

Angela Bermingham, originally from Bury, Manchester, the proud owner of the unusual progeny, intends to keep Daisy’s offspring as pets, rather than dispatching them to a butcher or a meat plant.

Her geeps, which she nicknamed “This” and “That”, may, according to livestock experts, be the world’s only surviving twin sheep/goat hybrids.