The lamb who is extra quick off the hoof: Animal with FIVE legs refuses to let it slow him down



You might have to do a double take when you look at this picture.



The adorable lamb was born with a total of five limbs at a farm in western France.

The Red West lamb was born on February 5 at a farm owned by Yvan Delage in Condéon, in Charente, and was the only one of his four siblings to have any abnormalities.

The newborn has two back legs and three front legs, with the extra limb situated just behind its front left leg.

The Red West lamb born with five legs at a farm in Charente, France, is healthy and has no other birth defects

Mr Delage was so shocked at the animals extra leg he took a photo soon after it was born. He told Sud Ouest the lamb is lively and just as greedy as his brothers.

The baby is said to be completely healthy apart from the extra limb and it is expected he will frolic in the fields alongside the 100 other sheep at the farm.

It was lucky to survive because sheep born with extra legs do not tend to live, or tend to have health difficulties.

Another five-legged lamb, aptly called Jake the Peg, was born in Newnham, Northamptonshire in 2011. Jake's owner Pip Hopcraft decided to amputate his fifth leg.

