As to horses "hiding" them... How fertile is a stallion likely to be, if they are outside the abdomen, but not hanging down in the scrotum (as in held tight up in the groin area)? I have a stallion that is very good at hiding them, but I have felt them and occasionally see them.Ditto MKF
If they aren't down within a week or two of birth they ain't coming down without help. Many, many, many times people will say their horses don't descend until they are older, and are fertile. That is impossible. They must be out of the body cavity or they will be sterile very quickly. Most of the time people just can't find them, even "pros". Horses are good at hiding them!
That's good to know, and I hope you are right. He also seems to suck them up with cooler weather, and I'm not just talking winter, we've had some rainy cooler days lately and I didn't see hide nor hair of them; then the last couple days have been 90s and there they are.He'll be fine... just because he sucks them up around you doesn't mean they are always sucked up
That's normalThat's good to know, and I hope you are right. He also seems to suck them up with cooler weather, and I'm not just talking winter, we've had some rainy cooler days lately and I didn't see hide nor hair of them; then the last couple days have been 90s and there they are.He'll be fine... just because he sucks them up around you doesn't mean they are always sucked up
I knew they could to a degree, but didn't realize they would to the extent this stallion does. My other stallion leaves his down most of the time, about the only time they disappear is in the dead of winter (like below freezing), otherwise they are hanging.That's normalHe's regulating the temperature of "the boys".. The cremaster muscle allows a stallion to pull up/let down the testicles, so in cooler weather the muscle contracts and pulls the testicles closer to his body where it's warmer, when it's hot it relaxes and allows the testicles to carry lower, therefore cooler..
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