Female goat drinking her pee?

[Chickpalooza]

Hermaphrodites are both male and female not one or the other.

I have seen several milking bucks and I have owned one or two. On a whim I sent one buck's milk to the lab with the rest of the milk samples. Came back 3.2% BF, CMT negative. There are a couple things to watch out for in milking bucks. One, periodically they may need to be milked out. Failure to do so can result in mastitis. In fact, I know of at least two bucks that died of mastitis. The other thing is that because the udder is in close proximity to the scrotum, it can keep the testicles too warm and cause fertility problems. Keeping the udder milked out will help prevent this. My milking bucks were Alpines, but I have also seen it in Toggenburgs, Nubians, and Saanens.

By the way, hermaphrodites are female, not male. You would never confuse a hermaphrodite with a buck.

 

[cassie]

Hermaphrodites are both male and female not one or the other.

Not sure why you quoted my post here. Just for the record, milking bucks are not hermaphrodites. They are bucks. They are fertile, smelly, and normal in every way except they give milk. They occur most often in high milk producing lines. Personally I have seen more milking bucks than I have seen precocious milkers. Precocious milkers are doelings that come into milk without ever having been bred. Neither precocious milkers nor milking bucks are all that common but they aren't exactly rare either.

 

[cassie]

The hermaphrodites found in goats that occur as a result of homozygous polled breedings are genetically female although they have both male and female physical characteristics.