Commentary for Chullin 155:40

ואמר רבא

It should then follow, should it not, that as a hybrid cannot be a consecrated animal, so the law of 'It and its young' should not apply to a hybrid? Wherefore has it been taught: The law of 'It and its young' applies to a hybrid<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The product of a ewe and a he-goat. If one slaughtered this offspring and its dam one would be culpable. huf');">²⁰</span> and to a koy?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' a permitted animal, about which the Rabbis were undecided whether it was to be classed in the category of cattle or of wild beasts. Probably a cross between a goat and some species of gazelle. V. infra ');">²¹</span> And [there is] also [this difficulty] for it is written here, sheep, and Raba has declared,

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