FARMER MARK Jordan went to tend his sheep last Thursday just as he does every morning.
But this particular day was different than any other as he was greeted with a sight he had never encountered. “That morning I went down to the sheep and I saw the mother licking a newborn lamb before she gave birth to two others,” he said.
While that in itself was nothing out of the ordinary, Jordan said a closer inspection of the first lamb gave him a jolt.
“When I first saw it, I thought the head was up under the body but when I picked it up, I only saw two hind legs,” he said.
The lamb was born without a head or upper torso, consisting only of two hind legs, fur and all.
There were no signs of predation, just what looked as an aberration of nature.
Jordan, of Orange Hill, St James, keeps his flock in Rock Dundo, in the same parish, on his father’s property. He said he took the body to his father, who was a more experienced farmer, but he too said he had never encountered such a sight. They then decided to bring it to the Nation, much to the shock and awe of staff.
As for the fate of the pair of lamb legs, Jordan said he carried out a thorough inspection before burying it.
