My spider senses tell me this is pretty fucked up

This sheep would be the ideal poster boy opposing the gentle art of genetioc engineering, but sadly he's a natural creation.

New Zealand sheep Jake the Peg (dee-da-dee-da-la-da-dum ... with three extra legs ... dee-da-dee-da-la-da-dum), has a number of things to worry about, apart his over-abundance of limbs - one with two hoofs.

In fact, he's not really male at all, but was born a hermaphrodite. And he's missing a part of his bowel, which prevents him from excreting - and means he'll have to be destroyed.

Veterinarian Steve Williams at the Canterbury Vets clinic in the rural town of Methven said he believed he believed an error during embryo formation, which happens once in several million sheep, resulted in the extra limbs, AP reported.

The six-day-old lamb was born last Friday on the farm of Dave and Di Callaghan.

Mr Callaghan said he had found seven-legged creature, born with a normal twin, walking round in the paddock with its mother.

"I have never seen anything like that," he said according to AP.

Well, Dave, it's a good thing you kept the poor creature alive this long, to satisfy the world's curiosity.

Rumours Jake's birth resulted from a crude experiment of Farmer Dave's, using ram semen, sheep shit and Di's kitchen blender to create a sheep with not one, not two but three inviting anuses are, of course, false and defamatory.