{"id":1016575,"date":"2022-03-10T02:26:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T02:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/10\/watch-british-farm-announces-birth-of-five-legged-lamb\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T02:26:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T02:26:47","slug":"watch-british-farm-announces-birth-of-five-legged-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/10\/watch-british-farm-announces-birth-of-five-legged-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: British farm announces birth of five-legged lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/British-farm-announces-birth-of-five-legged-lamb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNewcastleChronicle%2Fvideos%2F679690483177116%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 9 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> The owners of a British farm said they were shocked when a lamb was born recently with a fifth leg sticking out of its side.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Hogarty, part-owner of Whitehouse Farm in the Morpeth, Northumberland, area, said the five-legged lamb was born as part of a set of triplets on Feb. 22, and the animal appears to be in good health.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is unusual, but animals having something a bit different does happen &#8212; we get many animals born with disabilities, but you don&#8217;t see them as often as sadly they get put down,&#8221; Hogarty told Chronicle Live.<\/p>\n<p>Extra limbs are believed to occur in about one out of every 1 million lamb births, but Hogarty said the lamb is actually the second to be born with a fifth leg at the farm.<\/p>\n<p>Quinto, a sheep born about a decade before the new arrival, had an extra leg in the center of her body. The limb had to be removed, but Quinto went on to have a long and healthy life, Hogarty said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9 (UPI) &#8212; The owners of a British farm said they were shocked when a lamb was born recently with a fifth leg sticking out of its side. Heather Hogarty, part-owner of Whitehouse Farm in the Morpeth, Northumberland, area, said the five-legged lamb was born as part of a set of triplets on Feb. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1016576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}