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hermaphradite calf????

Postby longhornlover3498 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:30 pm

today when i went out to look at the cows and check for calves,snowflake had a black calf sleeping by her feet. snowflake is a LH/blk max/red angus cross. last year we line bred her her sires brother. when i reached under the calf i felt small udders my first thought was that it was a heifer,but when reached more towards that rear end that calf had nuts too! i got IT to stand up and my grandfather and i looked under it and we saw the teats...but we saw the nuts as well... :help: :help: :help:
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby hooknline » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:34 pm

All mammalian creatures have nipples both male and female. Some are more pronounced in males though.
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby longhornlover3498 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:46 pm

so he's a normal bull calf then?
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby dun » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:49 pm

longhornlover3498 wrote:so he's a normal bull calf then?

Correct
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby SSGenetics » Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:01 pm

Does it have a twat or penis?

All bulls have tits....
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby KNERSIE » Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:47 pm

This thread sure explains a lot!
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby hooknline » Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:48 pm

What more is there to explain?
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby Old_man_emu » Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:36 pm

I had a calf a few years ago that had is pizzle between his back legs where his testicles would normally been and he had a strange shaped anus. The scrotum was always little and just behind the pizzle and it never had testicles in it. It was weird to see him wee from between the back legs!
He developed a little bully but the butcher was happy to pay $900 for him come sale time.
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby longhornlover3498 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:57 pm

SSGenetics wrote:Does it have a twat or penis?

All bulls have tits....

penis...i have never sexed a bull calf and felt uh..."tits" before though. :shock:
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby hooknline » Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:04 pm

Shouldn't have to feel anything to sex a calf. Eyeball for vulva or a sheath.
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby longhornlover3498 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:46 pm

calf was laying down. wouldn't get up right then. will they eventually disappear as hermes grows up?
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby KNERSIE » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:02 am

longhornlover3498 wrote:calf was laying down. wouldn't get up right then. will they eventually disappear as hermes grows up?


No they won't, you dad still has his nipples, doesn't he?
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby longhornlover3498 » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:18 am

KNERSIE wrote:
longhornlover3498 wrote:calf was laying down. wouldn't get up right then. will they eventually disappear as hermes grows up?


No they won't, you dad still has his nipples, doesn't he?

yes LMAO :lol: :lol: ! But what i mean is that will they appear less...um,visible? he is one that we were gonna keep intact for a good friend who was wanting to buy him. he is a linebred calf and has great black max genetics and a great birth weight. he also didnt have that "pumpkin" complex when he was born. not sure if he'll still want him if he has an udder though lol
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby KNERSIE » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:37 am

The teats won't develop any further and it won't turn into an udder. His scrotum will grow a lot from about 7 months onwards and you won't even see the teats, but it will still always be there.
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Re: hermaphradite calf????

Postby KNERSIE » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:40 am

Longhornlover3498, I'm just curious, how old are you? Male or female?
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