Man cloned giant sheep with bizarre end goal

A man cloned giant sheep and ran a breeding operation for years in an attempt to create a ‘more valuable species’ to sell to hunting facilities.

Arthur ‘Jack’ Schubarth, 81, was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison for his scheme to raise giant hybrid sheep for captive hunting.

Schubarth conspired with at least five others from 2013 to 2021 to breed ‘a larger hybrid species of sheep that would garner higher prices from shooting preserves’, court documents state.

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