Feel like a right idiot. Our mini "gelding" has big boys bits!!

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Nickles1973

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I have posted before about my Daughters miniature Shetland which we bought last August.
We bought him from a back garden where he had been kept in fairly unsuitable conditions and had been fed a very poor diet.
He was in poor condition, and looked very downtrodden. His feet were in a mess and the first time I picked his feet out his frogs just fell apart. On top of which he didn't seem to realise he was a pony at all as he followed my Daughter around like a dog.
We were told he was a three year old gelding.
I had the vet to him to complete a passport, microchip him and start his vaccinations and took advice on worming him. The Vet questioned his age and thought he was most likely less than two. This was confirmed by the dentist that I had look at him who also said he was definatley not as old as we'd been told.
Fast forward 6 months and his condition has improved no end, his feet all have lovely healthy frogs in them and he is well settled into a little herd of ponies.
However he has of late become a real handful. In fact I posted about this a couple of weeks ago. I recieved some helpful advice and took steps to adjust his diet and our ways of handling him.
Then a friend suggested that his behavour could be that of a rig which started to ring some alarm bells and I decided to take a look at his lower regions. I'm sure you can guess what I've found!!
I can't believe I haven't seen them before!!!! Or even the vet didn't notice when he was completing his passport? Or even the farrier when trimming his hooves? Or is it possible that because he is much younger that we had been led to believe that they have only just appeared??
I now feel like a complete numpty :-(
Needless to say the vet is coming to my yard tomorrow and I shall be making arrangements to have the boy fixed asap. Hopefully then my Daughter will get her loving little pony back.
 
Sorry, but I have to giggle, at least you've found out before there were any accidents in the field - possibly:eek:
If it makes you feel any better my friend bought a lovely colt at a sale a few years ago an neither of us noticed that he had only one until we got him home. He turned out to be a very expensive purchase!
 
3Beasties said:
Has he been in with mares?

Well done you for doing the responsible thing and having him gelded :)
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No he hasn't been in with mares as our yard is boys only at the mo (luckily)

Tbh I'm almost relieved because his behaviour has changed so dramatically since Christmas my Daughter has not even been able to safely lead him to and from the field. This at least gives me hope that once gelded he should become easier to handle again.
 
Something similar happened to my friend. She went to Southall market to get a double bridle and came back with a Shetland - as you do!

Buttons was apparently eight and was broken to ride and harness.

The first child to ride him got bucked off - and she was a nice little rider, very competant and could stick on most things. He steadily got naughtier and naughtier and then started getting fruity with the mares. My friend found some "lumps" on his tummy and panicked thinking they were tumours. Imagine her horror and embarassment to find out that the "lumps" were testicles and that Buttons was probably not more than 18 months old!!!
 
Hexx said:
Something similar happened to my friend. She went to Southall market to get a double bridle and came back with a Shetland - as you do!

Buttons was apparently eight and was broken to ride and harness.

The first child to ride him got bucked off - and she was a nice little rider, very competant and could stick on most things. He steadily got naughtier and naughtier and then started getting fruity with the mares. My friend found some "lumps" on his tummy and panicked thinking they were tumours. Imagine her horror and embarassment to find out that the "lumps" were testicles and that Buttons was probably not more than 18 months old!!!
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I'm glad it's not just me then lol :-)
 
Friend did exactly the same. Bought a '6yr old gelding' mini shetland as a companion. However he grow a little, which she though was odd, plus she was worried about 'swellings' that developed around his sheath and got the vet out, (thinking it was a nasty reaction to flybites) to check and age. Rather embarrassed when the vet explained:o
 
You are not alone OP.... mini shetlands is a long way to bend down to check and it isn't something you automatically do!
I've heard it happening in dogs before (:eek:), a friend wanted to rehome a dog, and it was 2 weeks of questioning while his 'dog' crouched when taking a wee, to realise dog was actually a bitch! He claimed he simply didn't look and just assumed dog was lazy at first. (not even going to mention the 'gay' incident when his 'dog' really met another dog! lol)
 
Been there, done that, you are not alone!

When I went to look at Charley he was about 9 months old (had been told he was an 18 month old gelding) It was -15C (so I had gloves on as well) there was 2' of snow on the ground, and he had about 4" of hair, and was totally terrified so not inclined to take kindly to me groping around his bits.

Unsurprisingly I couldn't find anything (half starved, cold weather, fright, not dropped?) so when I clipped him (louse ridden) I was not at all at amused to find a pair - I, too, felt a right twerp that I had missed them at the beginning. My Vet laughed his head off when I told him, although he stopped laughing when he discovered Charley was probably less than 30" high at the time! Poor Vet was lying on his back under the pony to do him, he still jokes to this day that we should have just stood him on the freezer I use as a feed bin!

I am sure that as soon as he's been sorted he'll be back to his old self, Charley was within a very short time. :) Hope all goes well.
 
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Well, I had this with my cat!
Bought a kitten, tiny little thing which was a 'female'... Fast forward 6 months and 'Lola' was very used to his name, had all his injections etc. 'Lola' got booked in to be spade and I had a phonecall telling me 'he' actually needed to be castrated. This was at 9 months old.

He's still called Lola :D
 
EquestrianFairy said:
Well, I had this with my cat!
Bought a kitten, tiny little thing which was a 'female'... Fast forward 6 months and 'Lola' was very used to his name, had all his injections etc. 'Lola' got booked in to be spade and I had a phonecall telling me 'he' actually needed to be castrated. This was at 9 months old.

He's still called Lola :D
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Yes, we got a ginger kitten, didn't think to check since aren't all ginger cats toms? Didn't suspect a think until it started getting a bit passionate over discarded male clothing and my dad's beard. A quick squint under the tail and things weren't quite what they should be so dad found he had yet another female in the house to cope with :)
 
Well vet has been this morning and confirmed that our little man is indeed the proud owner of two unwanted appendages. One is quite a bit larger than the other which suggests that they have most likely only recently appeared.
He's coming back on Wednesday morning to geld the wee chap and hopefully in a couple of weeks we'll have our lovely cuddly pony back. :D
 
Nickles1973 said:
Well vet has been this morning and confirmed that our little man is indeed the proud owner of two unwanted appendages. One is quite a bit larger than the other which suggests that they have most likely only recently appeared.
He's coming back on Wednesday morning to geld the wee chap and hopefully in a couple of weeks we'll have our lovely cuddly pony back. :D
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I think I'm having one of those days, as this is making me laugh far more then it should!
 
Haha this made me laugh.

I have had the same but the other way round with a cat.

We bought this "little boy" black and white kitten- there was another boy there as we wanted a boy to go with the current female cat as thought she would accept it better, but the black and white one was more friendly hence why we got that one.

There was no sign of "bits" but thought they hadnt developed yet.

Take "him" to the vet for "his" injection only for the vet to turn round and say "hate to tell you this but its actually a little girl."

However she's so affectionate Im glad they sexed her wrong!
 
We bought a female cat called Daisy, sent her in to the vet to be spayed and AFTER the vet had opened 'her' up and couldn't find what he was looking for he decided to check the important area. After realising she was a boy he left a message on my answerphone saying 'unfortunately Daisy is Derek'. The cheeky b***ers even charged me for a spaying & I was in such a shock I actually paid it :eek:

Anyway enough of cats, we have a young mini in with our herd and his boy bits aren't visible but he's started displaying so much stallion like behaviour that his owner is getting him chopped very soon. He loves the fact that my mare is in season & runs along behind her curling his lip and biting her back legs. The boys are kept in a different field to the girls so he only gets to sniff her when I have to lead her through his field, but he's so small I think he could get through the post & rail if he really wanted to :D
 
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