Gender confusion...???

[Sinnfox]

Okay, I'll start by saying the sex change fairy has visited here a few times and so far hadn't bugged me to much. This however I'm not sure how to feel about. I bought a lovely 3 month old mini rex doe. Breeder checked her clearly a female. I checked her, defiantly girl bits. She goes into quarantine. she makes it out of quarantine. I check her over still my pretty little girl. A week goes by and its time for nail trimming again. I pull out my pretty little girl and she, well she has testicles Mind you the other bit is still female, but it is girl bits with testicles? She? is a bit over four and a half months old now so I think this is about it. I don't mind the sex change fairy often as I mentioned but stopping half way seems a bit rude :/

 

[dayna]

I wonder if she can be bred? Or if she's a hermaphrodite? <br /><br /> __________ Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:54 pm __________ <br /><br /> Oh and pics? That sounds interesting.

 

[Sinnfox]

i'll take pics in the morning so i have better light...friend says i need to start calling it dog food since it is probbaly useless...and not something id want in my line :/

 

[arachyd]

Could it be a split penis?

 

[skysthelimit]

I would ask the same. I had a buck that I could not tell was a buck until he was around 6 mos. My lines take TIME to drop their stuff, until really recently, it was common for my newly SR bucks to not have testicles. Even the Angora buck I got last year did not have descended testicles till 6 mos.

I got side tracked... Anyway, the buck who I couldn't tell, came from the litter where I got two split penises. So at 4 mos, the penis may not have closed yet. Either way, I would not want that in my lines.

 

[Miss M]

There was a thread recently with pictures of what was identified as a split penis. It looked an awful lot like "girl bits" to me, but in one of the pictures you can see a testicle off to one side.

split-penis-graphic-t20414.html

 

[Zass]

There was a thread recently with pictures of what was identified as a split penis. It looked an awful lot like "girl bits" to me, but in one of the pictures you can see a testicle off to one side.

split-penis-graphic-t20414.html

Oh yeah, he had two fully formed testes, and plenty of "buck smell". I never doubted his maleness

 

[Sinnfox]

I pulled it out to take pics and it looks a bit more male now not as much so as my other split buck (other split buck is a pet) but as for hermaphrodite...I'll check when i butcher him, but I wouldn't be surprised i have had geez at least 3 others I believe so far in the past 3 years? i was told they are supposed to be rare but i have weird luck i guess :/

 

[skysthelimit]

They can be rare, or they can be genetic. After seeing two in the same lines, I figured genetic.

 

[Sinnfox]

all my hermaphrodites...from completely different places, so not related...none born here...all bought with me trying to grow them out from breeder stock. Not even the same breeds. my luck is just off this way :/ one was an american chinchilla, one a blue dutch, one was a differant mini rex, I think I had a mutt that was one as well but I don't remember for sure:/

 

[michaels4gardens]

In all my years of raising rabbits, -- I have yet to have "any of that" born on my place, -- and I have raised thousands---
it must be a problem with rabbit genetics, other then New Zealand, Flemish, and Cali, -- even my Muts I have now-- that are totally mixed, -- have not had any deformities at all,

 

[dangerbunny]

I have a split penis buck, he was bought as a doe and surprised me, shame as he is a sweet little thing. Pictures here, post192264.html