I have a buck that has retained testicles...vet suggested marketing him as a teaser buck since he more than likely would not have viable semen. it really makes me sad as he is just a very sweet and beautiful animal. I do not want to sell him for meat. has anybody else had this problem?
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I had a buckling with only one descended testicle last year. I did not sell him. We butchered him, and I found his second testicle WAY up inside him. There wasn't any point to wethering him, because even though the other testicle never dropped, he *could* have gotten a doe pregnant. The only way I would have sold him was if I had sold him as a buck's companion animal. I would not have kept him in with does.
Years ago I had a buck born with only one descended testicle. The thing is that they will get stinky just like a real buck, so you don't want to keep them with milking does. (I'm thinking that your vet isn't too familiar with dairy goats.) This might work with meat goats. The other thing is that when they have retained testicles, they are supposedly at higher risk for some type of reproductive cancer. (Can't recall which one.) When we had a monorchid (one testicle) he died by six months. I'm pretty sure someone else on here had a similar situation with a monorchid. I didn't want to sell mine since he was essentially defective, so I was going to give him to someone who was willing to have him surgically castrated, and her vet said that he'd charge $100+, depending on how long it took him to find the other testicle. Sometimes they can be all the way up by the kidneys. We had a cat that was a monorchid, and he wound up with about a four-inch scar from castration as the vet tried to find the other testicle -- and he was only six months old, so four inches was pretty much his whole abdomen.