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Forty\u2010five Dorper rams (24 rams aged 8\u201311\u00a0months and 21 rams aged 12\u201324\u00a0months) were examined using a portable ultrasound scanner connected to a 7.5\u2010MHz transducer. Computer\u2010assisted analyses of testicular ultrasonograms utilized commercially available Image ProPlus<jats:sup>\u00ae<\/jats:sup>analytical software. Spectral Doppler scans of testicular arteries were performed immediately after scrotal (B\u2010mode) ultrasonography to determine peak systolic velocity (PSV), end\u2010diastolic velocity (EDV), resistive index (RI\u00a0=\u00a0[PSV\u2212EDV]\/PSV), and pulsatility index (PI\u00a0=\u00a0[SPV\u2013EDV]\/mean velocity) of the blood vessels. The length of the testes (9.7\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.3 compared with 9.0\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.2\u00a0cm) and scrotal circumference (33.3\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.5 compared with 31.8\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.4\u00a0cm) were greater (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00.05) but testicular depth (4.5\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.1\u00a0 compared with 4.9\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.08 cm) was less (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00.05) in sexually mature compared with peripubertal rams. [Corrections added on 9 Jan 2019 after initial online publication: The testicular size values in the sentence were corrected.] There were no differences (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&gt;\u00a00.05) between the two age groups of Dorper rams in blood flow indices of testicular arteries. Mean numerical pixel values (100.5\u00a0\u00b1\u00a04.1 compared with 89.2\u00a0\u00b1\u00a04.8) and pixel heterogeneity (25.6\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.6 compared with 23.6\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.5) of testicular parenchyma were greater (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00.05) in peripubertal than in postpubertal rams. Semen volume was negatively correlated with PI of testicular arteries (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0\u22120.57,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00.04). In summary, the attainment of sexual maturity in the rams of the present study was associated with significant changes in testicular length and depth, scrotal circumference, and parenchymal echogenicity\/hetrogeneity but not in testicular volume and blood perfusion rates. 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