| Tales of Embarrassment
Or in this case maybe it should be tails.
We got Lala from my niece. Her name at the time was Little Miss Pink Pig. We thought that was quite a mouth full so we changed it to Lala.
All the boars love Lala. Its cute to watch them try and woo her over. They love smelling us after we've held her. She's always had a high estrus and gets cranky from it every few weeks.
Well as some of you know when we had Lala in to Dr Greear a few months ago we discovered Lala was intersexed. She had parts we didn't know about. I don't know where her testicles had been hiding but during an exam they were found. Along with a little penis. All of us were quite surprized.
Well we were in for another shock yesterday. Dr. Tim doesn't think she's intersexed. He thinks she's just a male. I guess all of us including Dr. Greear were just so used to her being a her, the boars reactions to her, and what we thought was high estrus (nobody can figure that out now) when we found the extra bits we didn't even consider we might have sexed her wrong from the very start.
So now we are all a little embarrassed about the mistake. Its just a good thing Nikki never got pregnant. Dr. Tim thinks Lala must be sterile, but I worry that she (yes, she's still a she to me) was only sterile because whatever were holding her testicles up was also blocking her sperm. We didn't think to tell Dr. Tim the testicles only came down recently. Nikki has gained weight lately that we had put down to her eating all the food for both of them before we realized Lala wasn't eating. I sure hope she isn't pregnant. So now we are going to have to figure out whether to seperate them when Lala is well and ready to go back in the cage, have one of them fixed, or try to just not worry about it and go on like we did before.
Any ideas?
Have a great Sunday! |
