Pregnant sheep?

california cowgirl

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I bought some older lambs from someone with the ewes and they said they had been banded as young lambs. Well they kept acting like rams so we flanked them and someone whoever that banded them left a testicle back or one on each slipped up over the band and they were one nutters but it was up in their body you could only see the bulge from our view and you could feel it nothing hung down. we have a neighbor that has a fat sheep and she is all alone with a goat but she is fat!!!
 

BrownSheep

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It is easy to slip a testicle when banding! I've bought show lambs from a guy who literally just got the scrotum of every ram lamb he had. It's a two man job in my opinion. A squisher and a squeezer!
 

Southdown

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We've missed one and had surprise pregnancies. Now I stick to burdizzo and no problems since. Definitely agree it's a two man (or two women) job.
 
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