Just had a funny idea: wool "pants" for bucklings to prevent breeding!

kristenm1975

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I was just thinking, I knit and could easily custom make little modified wool diapers to cover up the little parts in order to keep a buckling from breeding before he's sent off to freezer camp. Our local butcher charges $90 per animal and I would hate to pay for that PLUS the cost of extra fencing just to get the guys up to a decent slaughter weight, if there was some other cheap way to avoid unintentional breedings.

Is this totally nuts (no pun intended) or have people been doing this for years??
 

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I would feel bad for the buck. haha He doesn't know that something is in the way and then...well you get the idea. ;) bet that wouldn't feel to good.
 

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I remember reading about something called an "olor" that is basically an apron that keep the buck from actually doing the deed. If they are headed for the freezer though, seems a $10 bander would be easier than having to make pants or aprons. They will grow out just fine and no worries about breeding.
 

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It would not remove the instinctual breeding behaviors. I think my goats would chew it off in minutes. Considering what bucks do.... like pee in their mouth :sick it would be easy for them to chew off.
Why not just castrate them so they don't end up with that intact buck taste that happens when you don't castrate. Around these parts no-one wants an intact buck for food.
 

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I love the apron idea!! I'll have to research that more. On the other hand, if meat tastes off as a result of a buck being intact, it makes sense to castrate early. I have a sensitive animal-loving, non-farmer hubby who will likely have a fit if I suggest such a thing though, especially since I'm still trying to imagine how I'm going to smuggle loads of fresh goat meat into the freezer and simultaneously explain where the bucklings all went. :rolleyes:

As far as how the buckling would pee with his diaper on, he'd do it into the diaper and have it washed daily, just like with babies in cloth diapers. :) Much easier to castrate, I agree.
 

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