Is she a Hermaphrodite (pic)

[trob1]

Here is a little pygmy that I have questioned for about a month now. She is one of triplets, 1 girl 2 boys and has buckly tendancies. Her vulva looks so different from what I am used to. After the last thread about this it conferms my fears. She is 3 months old. What do yall think.

[moosemaniac]

I'm no expert, but your pictures don't look anything like the pictures in the hermaphrodite thread. I'd guess no.

Ruth

[bumpus]

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Looks ok from a farmers point of view but a buck may think different.

What are you afraid of anyway.
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[jen74145]

Bumpus, hermaphrodites possess both male and female characteristics, so they can't breed.

[ozark_jewels]

Seriously, she looks nothing like my girl. Doesn't look like she would feel the same either. I would guess she is fine. Having two brothers shouldn't make any difference.

[trob1]

She just looks so different. Her other half sisters vulva is flat like all my other does with just a little tip that angles downward and not upward. I sure hope she is fine as I was keeping her for my breeding stock.

[bumpus]

Originally Posted by jen74145

Bumpus, hermaphrodites possess both male and female characteristics, so they can't breed.

No one knows until you try to bread her with a buck.

I don't see both sex organs.

Many different kinds of animals have different shapes, sizes, and designes of sex organs, including men and women.

That is not a sign of not breading, and having kids.

I only use brush goats so if she could breed and have kids, I would make money because they all go to butcher any way.

bumpus
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[tinknal]

NM

[moosemaniac]

Originally Posted by bumpus

No one knows until you try to bread her with a buck.

breaded does? or would that be breaded doughs?

Ruth

[moosemaniac]

I just can't help myself!

Ruth

[jen74145]

Just because you don't see them, doesn't mean they aren't there... in college Bio, we dissected fetal piglets. Three out of 25 were, visibly, females, but upon dissection, they had testes. One had testes AND ovaries, but no uterus. The ovaries contained eggs. Shoulda seen our professor's face as he carried this half-dissected pig down the hall to another room... he was comically perplexed, lol.
Very strange piggies, made me wonder what they'd been giving the mothers to have that high of a percentage.

[ozark_jewels]

I wouldn't think of culling that girl yet, Trob1(if that is what you would with her ). She isn't that different and the look of the vulvas do differ from doe to doe. In fact an older Nubian doe that I just sold looked a lot like that. I had trouble breeding her to a very young buckling one year as he was too short and her vulva tipped up at the end. But she was fine and produced kids every year but one.

[trob1]

Thanks, that puts my mind at ease.