* the 2 whethers that are with them are someone elses 'lawnmowers' and were ring castrated as baby lambs so no chance they could serve anything. Even if a testicle was missed and was up in the abdominal cavity that would render the animal infertile even if he did serve them - whcih he hasnt!
Not sure this would render the male infertile ......
It's done on purpose (or so the farmers say
) to make teaser rams in the north of England.
One year, a lot of farms in our area had unexpected lambs on May 11th. We checked back, and Dec 18th had been the day the temperatures nose-dived to -20C below. Cold enough for those internal testicles to no longer be too hot for the wee spermies...