August 2, 2007: Seven-legged lamb

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Oh this one's so obviously eaten by the second comment that I'll point it out to start: leg of lamb for the whole family AND the neighbors.

This one comes from the Telegraph, via Spluch, and it's featured today instead of tomorrow because the lambykins was to be put down.

Veterinarian Steve Williams at the Canterbury Vets clinic in the rural town of Methven said he believed an error during embryo formation had resulted in the lamb being born polydactyl -- with many legs -- a condition that occurs once in several million sheep.

He said the lamb was also hermaphrodite and missing a portion of its bowel so was unable to pass faeces and would have to be destroyed.

Even the Telegraph gets there before we do... ending its story with a single sentence paragraph:

There was no word on whether any of the legs would find their way onto a dinner plate.