friends of ours assured us our rare breed ram would not be sexually mature until he was nearing 9 months old as they are slower growing ???naively and expensively we took this a gospel but took the 'precaution'of seperating him at 7 months.........lambing time last year we lost a ewe and her lamb not knowing she was in lamb....he had tupped her...............the main tup wore a raddle...no raddle mark.....it could only have been the young tup.....
this year we've castrated............a sad lesson