[twizzel]

Probably not quite yet but come august/September he will probably start to show interest.

[Penninehillbilly]

Can you get a photo of area under tail? and below?

[LeanneR88]

Yes I shall attempt it when rain stops a bit ?

[Charlie1234]

If he has nuts you would see them,may not be huge but they will be there.
Unless the seller banded them soon after birth rendering him a good pet with no chance of being a dady 

[Old Shep]

If he is a boy (i.e. has a willy and no vulva under the anus!)  and he also has no testicles, it is possible that he is undescended.  There's often a small sac with nothing in it.  In this case he needs keeping away from the girls from late summer onwards as he could still be potent.

[LeanneR88]

If he has nuts you would see them,may not be huge but they will be there.
Unless the seller banded them soon after birth rendering him a good pet with no chance of being a dady 

Sorry for all the questions! Would there be any marks left if done?

[DartmoorLiz]

  One of my barren "ewes" turned out to be a boy.  "She" was in the lambing field and I was checking for lambs when I saw that "she" was peeing like a boy. 


My tame lamb (who is a castrated boy) has a small curl of hair where his balls fell off after banding, he has a similar curl where his tail was banded.  If I didn't know what that curl was about I wouldn't guess it was a scar. 

[zwartbles]

Easy-peasy! Does it widdle out the middle? It's a boy !!

[Womble]

Sorry for all the questions! Would there be any marks left if done?

Yes, it leaves a mark a bit like a belly button where the nuts used to be.

It's far more accurate to look for widdle from the middle though, or for a vulva. If you're really struggling, say so, and I'll go out and take photos of a few back ends for you tomorrow (what the hell did I just volunteer to do???  ).

[Penninehillbilly]

Sorry for all the questions! Would there be any marks left if done?

Yes, it leaves a mark a bit like a belly button where the nuts used to be.

It's far more accurate to look for widdle from the middle though, or for a vulva. If you're really struggling, say so, and I'll go out and take photos of a few back ends for you tomorrow (what the hell did I just volunteer to do???  ).

And just hope you aren't seen, funny how some people might jump to wrong conclusions. 

[YorkshireLass]

Having a bad morning and this thread has proper cheered me up 


Watching for the wee is the simplest way to tell in the field

[Rupert the bear]

Oh for goodness sake ! everyone knows the boy lambs have blue ribbons and the girl lambs have pink ones. Don't they ?

[Penninehillbilly]

Having a bad morning and this thread has proper cheered me up 


Watching for the wee is the simplest way to tell in the field

But it's like collecting droppings for FEC,how often do they go when you want them to?   

[SallyintNorth]

It's possible he's been ringed and the scrotal sac removed but the testicles not removed.  So as well as looking, have a feel of the lower belly, between the back legs.  At that age they're pretty large, bigger than lambs kidneys, and very solid, so you won't miss them if they're there.

[nimbusllama]

It is also possible that he/she is a hermaphrodite!  Sorry to add to the confusion but that would explain a lot.  A few years ago I had triplets from a Badgerface ewe.  I identified them as ewe lambs as they all had vulvas.  After a few weeks I noticed a change in the appearance of one of the lambs, it's head became more masculine and horns started to develop, it also started to smell very 'rammy'.  Once it was more mature it had a rudimentary penis inside it's vulva and a testicle high up in it's groin.  So it didn't widdle from the middle, but wasn't female either!  This might explain why the breeder thought it was female and didn't castrate as there is no scrotum.  Obviously my lamb went in the freezer.  Just for the record the other two ewe lambs were fertile and successfully had lambs, as I understand that if this happens in a multiple birth in cattle then the other offspring is infertile.