HELP!!! my girl might actually be a boy?!

[Pearce Pastures]

Don't freemartins have two openings though? If this goat pees like a boy, has only one opening back there, has been living with males for a long enough time period that a SHE should have been pregnant and hasn't had it happen...I am guessing male with small but still present testicles.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

8 months is still young yet so those testicles could be quite small still. Is the sister pregnant?

 

[SheepGirl]

Sounds like a wether.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

x2

 

[Meaghan]

Definitely not a freemartin. Freemartins, by definition, are a male/female twinning where they share an amniotic sac and swap hormones causing both to underdevelop their respective sex organs. Since it was supposed to be a female/female twinning, it can't be a freemartin. The sister could have been if this is indeed a boy, though.

Interested in hearing the outcome of this! Pictures would definitely help.

 

[luvmypets]

 

[babsbag]

Yes a wether would explain it, but why would someone sell it as a doe?

 

[luvmypets]

Yes a wether would explain it, but why would someone sell it as a doe?

They most likely didn't want it. Cause I mean if the baby was bred on their farm and the owners castrated it they would know it was a boy. This could have been some false advertising.

 

[norseofcourse]

Could it be a boy with retained testicles? Does it act like a buck at all?

 

[Sweetened]

Ah, sorry!

I would say they nutted at birth but never got the nuts, so theyre tucked up inside without a scrotum. Its a buck, but is highly unlikely to produce as the sperm would be too warm and die off.