His Balls Fell Off
 

Oh...his balls fell off...


Okay, be honest, how many places other than a farm type setting are you going to hear such a statement said without panic behind the words?

When our little wether arrived he was still technically a buck. The people had just put the band on him that morning. Now its not that we are newbies to banding and were over-reacting. We have banded bucklings before.

But Buddy was underweight and was suffering from worms and cocci and at six months was a little big for banding. We didn't feel he was handling the stress of banding well. He seemed so down and in a lot of pain, so we snipped the band off and figured that if he wasn't a wether it wouldn't be that big of a deal although we weren't sure if he would ever be fertile or anything like that.

At first there were no changes in his manly parts. In fact for the first month after he was here, we were sure we had another buck. But it always looked a little pinched at the top of his testicles where the band had been. Over the next month, a black line formed across the pinched area and his testicles began to shrivel up to nothing. And we became sure that we in fact were going to have a wether, which was preferred anyway.

A few days ago all of the goats got their feet trimmed. It was the last time I trim feet on the girls before they kid. They will all be a hundred days bred soon and I don't want them to have to try balancing on three legs while being heavy bred.

Now I know that morning at feed time, Buddy still had his shriveled testicles swinging around. That afternoon I pulled him from the pen he shares with BigWig and led him over to the patio and trimmed his feet up.

As my mother was leading him back to his pen I noticed that his testicles were gone and said, "Oh...his balls are gone."

My mother looks back and says, "What?" So I repeat myself.

She replies, "Oh, really? Are they on the patio? I'd hate for the dogs to get them."

It was then that it struck me that people who live a lifestyle that includes livestock can have some really crazy conversations.

They were not, by the way, on the patio. Not sure where they got off to since we didn't see them in the pen anywhere either.

She replies, "Oh, really? Are they on the patio? I'd hate for the dogs to get them."


<giggles uncontrolled from here on>

Thanks for sharing those precious nuggets with us. :)

Funny yet normal farm conversation :)

I think my LGD do get them as I never see any "rabbit feet" laying around. Nasty treat if you ask me but then again dogs do love to eat cat poop :D

I banded one around 6 months old as well, he was tiny but his no-no's were not! I am still waiting for those suckers to pop off. But I think due to cold they are hanging on by a thread :rolleyes:

How long did he have the band on before you took it off?

My kids have actually hunted for them....gross!!!!!!

I've only found the little nuggets once after they fell off a buckling we banded. I wonder what happens to them for real & what run's off with them.


I think you should post a picture of Buddy & BigWig.

thaiblue, mine love the rabbits feet too, which grosses me out because they have the fur on them still! Yuck!

I will get a pic of Buddy and BigWig today.

Thaiblue, it was only on him for two or three hours max. That is why I was surprised they went ahead and shriveled and fell off. When they shriveled, I thought okay, he is just going to run around with raisins the rest of his life, no big deal. I didn't think they would go ahead and fall off.

I'm not sure where they go when they fall off either. I think the shriveled testical fairies come and get them because most of the time they just dissappear. We don't have LGD's and our pet dogs can't get in the goat pens. The boys do share a pen with the chickens though and its been my experience that chickens will eat anything that doesn't eat them first, so maybe that's where they went.

Our horde of chickens took a dead mouse away from one of the barn cats the other day and were fighting over it amongst themselves. So my bet is with your chickens being clean up crew there.

And LOL's for the "His balls fell off" conversation. Here it was along the lines of, "Dang, are that kid's balls ever going to fall off?!" when we had five bucklings banded the same day, within an hour of each other, and one still had dangly bits a week after all the others had fallen off.

Also, just after our buck got here, my 11 year old son's comment was, "Mom, even Hondo's balls are spotted." hee hee. So they are!

-Sonja

Lol!!!

LOL - farm conversations can be such a hoot. Even funnier when you are in town having these sorts of conversations with your little kids and realize there are several wide-eyed eavesdroppers listening in.

The first time that happened here, my daughters found it. And took the dried-up pouch to my poor clueless unsuspecting husband, wanting to know what it was. And HE didn't know... and thought it was the ear of an animal... I was nearly rolling on the floor in laughter when my 7 year old showed me the "ear" they found. Then I explained.

The girls thought it was hilarious. Hubby was less than amused.

I still think it's funny... :pound:

Hi,

When we banded one of our babies (the first year we banded) we got the band too high and had to take it off. we took it off a couple of hours after it went on. My mentor told me that we should reband him right away and give him some peniclin (sp?) because his parts are already dead (I think she said it takes as little as 15 mins) and he could get an infection.......

Yes my friends and I were talking about ram rear (I have mostly sheep) saying that george (the new ram's name) had wonderful rear but his legs were too long. One girl (this was at college) from the other table asked if we were dating him.....NO...... if she could have his number.........

As my mother was leading him back to his pen I noticed that his testicles were gone and said, "Oh...his balls are gone."

My mother looks back and says, "What?" So I repeat myself.

She replies, "Oh, really? Are they on the patio? I'd hate for the dogs to get them."

Thanks for the laugh, I needed it today!

LOL the things our kids notice!

So true!

LOL. My father was out there when I said it and he was like "His WHAT fell off where?!" He didn't realize Buddy had a band of when he arrived here. My husband thought the whole thing was funny as long the dog hadn't ate it and I was sure she wasn't going to come in the house and throw it up on the floor,LOL

:hysterical: Did you tell her she was asking if she could date a male sheep?:eek::hysterical:

When I got my first goats the wether had just been banded and it was 2 months later when his "package" fell off. How do I know? My lab/coonhound mix Buddy came prancing into the middle of a bbq I was hosting tossing it around like a hackysack and dropped it right at the feet of my Dad's new girlfriend, who was not a country gal. Luckily no one but me knew what it was and I pretended it was a dead mouse and quickly disposed of the evidence in the trash...

Not everyone is cut out for the farm life, are they?

Kitty

OBF that is hilarious!!! :)

Bwhahhaha!!!

LOL!

Emily

You are so baaaad.

Bless up!

Bahahahhahhahha:hysterical:

When we started banding our own critters, my daughter was in 1st grade; up til then we'd just borrow the neighbor's old metal elastrator. Well, we got a pretty new blue PLASTIC handled one and my daughter LOVED it, it was so pretty. She asked her 1st grade teacher if she could bring it to school for show n' tell. Well, her teacher hadn't heard the term ELASTRATOR before and asked for an explanation. That afternoon I had a GREAT conversation with the teacher (a good friend of mine) explaining why she'd talked Molly out of that particular share. Around the same time, we were getting ready to band a group of baby goats and my hubbie said some smart-alecky thing about it, and my daughter thought it would be funny to chase him around the house, pretending she was going to band HIM. I was in the kitchen and I overheard him tell her, "Honey, its too late...Mom already got to me".

Oh Joan, that is too funny!

I am crossing my legs as I type this...

I had to get used to you crazy people posting pictures of your does' hoo hoo's on here. It's like caprine porn. Of course, I have joined the insanity and have posted, not only the private places of my does but also my cow, which, in comparison, looks like something you could fall into.

Still crossing my legs.

LOL!! Love it¡ My children got grossed out this afternoon when I mentioned that I could see baby moving around on the right side of one of my smaller does. Someday I will have farm childrens - wish they hadn't started out in the city, tho'!

Of our six kids, the oldest two were 12 and 10 when we moved to the country and the rest were 7, 2, infant and "not yet". There is a definite dilineation between the first 2 and the rest with the former truly "city kids" and the latter definitely "country kids".

Our oldest two will do whatever they can to avoid anything considered to be "gross", such as births, AI's, stall cleaning etc. The youngest three are all "Cool! Is that the placenta?!"

Right there... You stole the words from mine mouth. Or keyboard.:D

haaaaaa haaaaaa

I'm laughing just becuz it took THIS to get you to post!! ;) ;)

Haven't heard form you in awhile!

I haven't banded any goats yet, but when we do our bull calves, we always throw them to the cats when they fall off. It keeps them busy playing with them for hours!

Fortunately we live in a small farm town so no eyebrows are raised to conversations over things like semen tanks or retained placenta in the local grocery store! ;)

A priceless conversation! Brightened my mood indeed.

:shocked:

I had no idea we could say "balls" on HT.

Leave it to the goat board...

ROFLMBO!!! I just cannot stop laughing at this.....oh my word!! :pound:

You're perfectly correct, the more PC term should have been 'testicles'! But then again, look at the high number of views to this thread! ROTFL!

I just love this thread. :)
Oh and my dogs LOVE the goat's, pig's and calves balls. YUM!

Speaking of farm conversations... the one that comes to mind was from a horse stable where I was employed that dabbled in the breeding business. One day, a mare was turned out with a pony teaser stallion to see if she was ready to be bred. The barn owner's niece ran into the barn and yelled " Uncle ****, the pony is chasing that mare with a big red stick!!" We about fell over laughing.

Seriously, are they still considered 'mountain oysters' or are those from sheep?

Also, now I'm a bit worried as I've never seen any actually on the ground in all these years. I've always assumed they just shriveled up. So if you see me studying the ground carefully in the buckling pen late summer you'll know what I'm looking for...

:hysterical: Oh my, I would have died laughing. Just reading it gave me a good laugh.

I guess since they were kind of shriveled, raisins or prunes might have been a better analogy

Our poor animals get no personal privacy,lol. First we are out in the field looking up their tails, then we go and take pictures and post it on the internet for the whole world to see. LOL

Soon after acquiring our first farm type critters (chickens and goats), my husband and I realized how quickly our conversations reverted to those we had as new parents. Frequently heard sentences in both scenarios: "Have you checked to see that the poop is normal?" "How runny is too runny for poop before we get worried?" "Has he peed lately?" "That just smells off somehow." "Check the tail." "I stick the thermometer where?"

Children and critters seem to bring out the best in us, huh?

It's no wonder that during Biblical times shepherds were considered 'unclean'! We're a pretty coarse lot! :eek: