Do bucks ALWAYS stink?

[cmjust0]

Guilty as charged on dogs and cats... Our 1100sqft houses five dogs, four cats, and two humans. Stacked pretty deep. Pet hair is practically a condiment at our house.

Some people can't imagine living like that -- and I totally understand that sometimes -- but...well, it must be worth it somehow...I suppose.

Probably best if I don't ponder that too much and just pretend like it's fact.

 

[crazygoatlady]

how bad so some bucks smell? LOL We brought a buck in for breeding years ago and my DIL didn't believe that a buck could smell--well we knew they smell--ours only smell when the girls are in heat. my DIL got a whiff and started to puke, she was pregnant, but hadn't had any issues at all. How bad can they smell ? LOL When my brother had pygmies and the buck rubbed on him, my SIL made him change his clothes outside and BURNED his clothes. We have been lucky, our bucks smell, but we don't mind-maybe cause we are used to it or maybe cause we know if we don't have bucks that smell, we won't have bred does. yeah we can smell him in the house if the wind is jsut right but It is just a fact of life, literally

 

[SarahFair]

Blah! Do goat breeders participate in AI? lol

 

[trestlecreek]

Yep, some do utilize AI, but usually it is for genetics.....

They do smell, but not that bad. You would have to have one living on your back porch or play with him physically everyday to be bothered horribly. I pet and play with mine every now and then and I talk to them at each feeding. Mine are sweeties even though they do stink,..LOL. I have coveralls I wear when I know I will be giving IM shots or playing. If I forget, I just change my pants immediately and start them on soak.
I have learned to give sq vaccines without contact and am able to grab a buck to use on a lead for breeding without having to get it on my clothes...
After petting or grabbing, I have to wash my hands 5 times with different soaps, but it does come off.....

 

[SarahFair]

Yep, some do utilize AI, but usually it is for genetics.....

They do smell, but not that bad. You would have to have one living on your back porch or play with him physically everyday to be bothered horribly. I pet and play with mine every now and then and I talk to them at each feeding. Mine are sweeties even though they do stink,..LOL. I have coveralls I wear when I know I will be giving IM shots or playing. If I forget, I just change my pants immediately and start them on soak.
I have learned to give sq vaccines without contact and am able to grab a buck to use on a lead for breeding without having to get it on my clothes...
After petting or grabbing, I have to wash my hands 5 times with different soaps, but it does come off.....

Have you ever tried using lemon or vinigar?

 

[trestlecreek]

No, I never made that big of a deal over it, I just keep washing until the smell is gone. If comes off....

 

[ksalvagno]

I thought I was bad with 5 dogs, 3 cats and 4 rabbits in a 1600 square foot home! I'm glad I'm not the only animal nut here! I'm a sucker for rescues!

By the way, isn't that why it is called "fur"niture?

 

[cmjust0]

I thought I was bad with 5 dogs, 3 cats and 4 rabbits in a 1600 square foot home! I'm glad I'm not the only animal nut here! I'm a sucker for rescues!

Speaking of rescues and charity cases...out of our animals:

1 Border Collie, from the humane society.
1 Lab mix, also from the humane society...same day.
1 Feist dog, showed up on the front porch hungry with bloody feet.
1 Border Collie, picked up off the side of the road
1 White GSD, part of an accidental litter (not by us!)...has a congenital defect called megaesophagus, very special care required.
1 Sarplaninac LGD, free, because he was already 6mo and snappy with strangers (which we were, but we took him anyway)
1 DSH cat, wife 'rescued' him from a dopey friend of hers as a kitten
1 DSH cat, wandered into my garage as a kitten
1 Himalyan cat, wife purchased from a horrible breeder who's kid stomped at it until it was half nuts
1 Himalayan cat, given to my wife by same horrible breeder because said breeder just didn't have the time to deal with all the cats she was breeding...and because my wife knew the kind of situation the poor cat was probably in
3 goats, two nubi does and a boer doe, purchased on the cheap from family because they were moving to town and couldn't take them

...and then a whole bunch more goats which are afforded WAY more care (and subsequent $$$) than most sane folks would give a goat...

By the way, isn't that why it is called "fur"niture?

Why, yes, I think you're right. If it were meant only for humans, they'd have called it skiniture.

 

[Mini-M Ranch]

SO, you guys don't think the lilac fence would work??

 

[crazygoatlady]

no--lemon or vingar doesn't work with our bucks--although our goats milk soap does do a pretty good job-- we tell people that if someone tells you that you smell like a billy goat ( my dad used to say that so and so smelled like an old billy goat, we had no idea what he meant, now we do)--you better go home, strip off, maybe burn your clothes and scrub yourself really hard