Residents of Sirende village in Lugari location, Lugari sub-county have been left perplexed after a sheep belonging to one of them gave birth to a multi- deformed lamb with eight legs.
Shocked residents streamed to the tiny sleepy village, to witness for themselves the firsthand wonder animal in the home of Mrs. Timinah Musina.
According to Mrs. Musina, the sheep did not have any complications during its pregnancy but it experienced difficulties during delivery.
She said after several hours of struggling to deliver on its own unsuccessfully, she decided to help it by pulling the lamp but still, it wasn’t easy and she had to call one of her grandchildren to assist before it finally delivered the shocking creature.
The visibly shocked owner said the lamb had eight legs despite the rest of the body looking normal, adding that she had never encountered such an oddity in the last 30 years he has been keeping sheep.
According to Mrs. Musina, it was the seventh time for the sheep to give birth and he had not witnessed any abnormalities in the previous births.
“I have kept this sheep for more than ten years and it has given birth six times without witnessing any deformity in its lamps, but this is shocking,” she said.
The incident attracted throngs of villagers with a section of them attempting to superstitiously interpret the rare occurrence.