Is he a steer or not?

[AngusLimoX]

I don't really think a stag would be able to settle a cow so long as he wasn't "just" castrated. I'd think with one or both testicles in the body cavity, the animal's own body heat would kill off any sperm. There's a good reason why they're normally placed outside. :lol:

No he was pinched, or allegedly so, a couple months back. I guess I am very much in the minority on this board that way, in pinching. They didn't both shrivel up as well as they normally do, so they are hangin out there baby!! :lol: But you raise a good question milkmaid, is it likely a "belly nut" will produce viable semen?? I doubt it but, don't know it.

Here is ole Utah afraid to post a question and so far I bet a bunch of us "sperienced folk" have learned a few things from it. Thanks for posting Utah.

 

[dun]

I don't really think a stag would be able to settle a cow so long as he wasn't "just" castrated. I'd think with one or both testicles in the body cavity, the animal's own body heat would kill off any sperm. There's a good reason why they're normally placed outside. :lol:

They can and will. A friend of mine had a bull in the feedlot tht had both nuts retained in his body. He ran in the usual bunch f heifers to feedout a month or so before the bull-it went to the packers. Last I heard he had 4 or 5 young heifers calved from that brief interlude with the nutless wonder.

dun

 

[Ryder]

Testicles remaining in body cavity would reduce fertility but not neccessarily cause infertility.
It has been said that Napolean took hot baths as a form of birth control.

What do they call people that use the rhythm method of birth control? Parents. :lol2:
(OK that's my joke for the year.)

 

[AngusLimoX]

What do they call people that use the rhythm method of birth control? Parents. :lol2:
(OK that's my joke for the year.)

Well if the next one is as funny as that one it will be worth the wait! :lol:

 

[milkmaid]

Interesting dun, I learned something new. Thanks.

 

[msscamp]

I don't really think a stag would be able to settle a cow so long as he wasn't "just" castrated.

One wouldn't think so, but it doesn't happen that way. A stag can and will settle heifers and cows. I know to many people around here who thought the same thing and ended up with pregnant animals.

 

[eatbeef]

the bad part of banding is it is sometimes hard to know if you have two, with a knife you can count two in hand. A one-nutted steer ( or gelding, or man can reproduce) When castrating you can usually get the high nut out by relaxing a leg, pushing the belly down and kinda milking the nut out, just move stuff around till ya get it