Lamb found with leg growing from its head

A lamb with five legs and six feet has been born on a Tahmoor property in Australia. Neil Falk said he was surprised to find the peculiar looking lamb on his property shortly after its birth on June 14.

The lamb, a cross between a first cross merino and a black faith sussolk, has four normal fully-functioning legs and an extra leg with two feet growing out of the back of its head.

Mr Falk said he had been on farms all his life and he had only seen a similar abnormality once before. “I went to a show years ago where we had to pay to get in and they had a sheep with five legs,” he said. “Everyone said the leg was sewn on or something but this one certainly isn’t.”



Despite the additional limb, Mr Falk said the lamb was running around healthily and showing no signs of distress.

A spokeswoman for the Sydney University veterinary facilities at Cobbitty said the lamb’s condition was extremely rare.

“There’s lots of things that can cause the abnormality like genetics or toxins which impair the development of different stages of the foetus,” she said. “We don’t see it very often but when we do see it it can sometimes be because of something the animal ate.”

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