[Ladygrey]

Hi there 

My ram was limping this afternoon so I managed to catch him and checked his feet and dug some stones and mud out of his front right.

Whilst I was doing this I noticed his balls! (hard not to really  )

The underneath of them, well basicly the bottom of the sack...if you get what I mean, resembles a brain!!
they didnt look like this a few weeks ago!

I have tried searching for problems online and found nothing  is it something worth telling the vet 

has anyone else had similar problems? and what was it caused by? (RAM WISE) 

Hopefully this doesnt mean he looses his plot, as I really want some more shetland ewes from him this year

many thanks

Jess

[Fosterlambfarm]

id give the vet a call. looks like a bad infection

[Bramblecot]

No idea - but interested in the result.  Lots of viewing of ram-b's!!!

[Fleecewife]

Looks like a tumour.  Definitely a vet job to diagnose though.

[kaz]

Looks nasty. Vet job most definitely. Keep us posted.

[Azzdodd]

Had a ram lamb with something similar had to be PTS cause and infection spread in his blood vet said then can get it easily like thorn then sat in mud infection set it

[sabrina]

Never seen anything like it, job for a vet. Poor ram.

[sh3ph3rd]

Agree with the 'ask a vet' consensus. Could be symptomatic of something wrong within his general body, as well as his balls.

Do you have pine tar where you are? It's also sold as Stockholm tar. Mainly used for horses but works on everything basically. Golden staph sores, ulcers, cysts, gangrene, accidental amputations, dog-maul wounds, glass and splinters, deeper infections, mites, mange, basically I haven't found anything it hasn't helped in humans or animals in the way of sores and infections. It's a powerful, instant painkiller and disinfectant. Minimizes or prevents scarring wonderfully.

It's hard to know what's wrong without having a clue as to what ram's balls look like minus wool, though. 

[Ladygrey]

Thankyou everyone  

Will get the vet to have a look when he comes round to castrate the piglets

No I havnt heard of pine tar?! it sounds a bit like camrosa cream? or I may be wrong

[suziequeue]

Mmmm - doesn't look malignant..... looks like - for a ram - his brains are in the usual place!!

[Clarebelle]

Mmmm - doesn't look malignant..... looks like - for a ram - his brains are in the usual place!!

 

[Ladygrey]

HAHA   

thats so funny

[suziequeue]

But it is VERY sexist 


Apologies rams 

[sh3ph3rd]

it sounds a bit like camrosa cream?

I've no idea what that is. As far as I know pine tar/stockholm tar is made from boiling the sap of a species of pine tree over and over and over again until all that is left is the tar. The stuff's miraculous, defies logic or reason. Generally used on horses so saddleries might have some. It's not dangerous to health like normal tars, not that you'd let any animal eat it in quantity, of course.

Hope your ram does well. Forgot to ask before: is he one of those really 'low-hanging' rams whose balls scrape the ground? Dunno if that's even an actual breed characteristic of any breed, but I've seen rams who make a terrible clacking noise as they run over rocky ground because their balls hang so low and are so hard they make a sound exactly like striking two rocks together every time they impact... Hard to chase them, lol. A lot of them are bare-balled, so to speak.

[Fleecewife]

I shouldn't laugh but that is so funny 
 
We did see a billy goat once which continually kicked himself in his low-slung appendages - my goodness but he was a bad tempered one