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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: breeding time
« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2014, 11:33:25 pm »
Tups smell of.., well, tups.
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Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: breeding time
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2014, 09:15:50 am »
Yes Sally, but so do I!!  :dunce:
 
It's weird really. I've never noticed a tup smell before. OK, I've not got up close and personal with many, but for example until last week there were thirty blackface, texel and Beltex tups in one of our fields, and none of them whiffed at all.
 
Is it just at breeding season then, or will he pong all year?
« Last Edit: October 30, 2014, 09:33:21 am by Womble »
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Hellybee

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • www.blaengwawrponies.co.uk
Re: breeding time
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2014, 09:34:29 am »
 Very used to the smell now, don't mind it at all x

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: breeding time
« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2014, 10:21:20 am »
To my nose, tups always smell like tups.  But yes, very much more so at this time of year ;)
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Hellybee

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • www.blaengwawrponies.co.uk
Re: breeding time
« Reply #19 on: October 30, 2014, 10:32:09 am »
Deeply musky  ;D

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: breeding time
« Reply #20 on: October 30, 2014, 01:14:53 pm »
They will smell stronger if there are females about at this time of year... you want to go near my billy goat... ;D

Hellybee

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • www.blaengwawrponies.co.uk
Re: breeding time
« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2014, 07:31:22 pm »
I've never had the pleasure of getting a whiff of billy goat, thankfully, what do they smell like.

Jamie12

  • Joined Nov 2013
Re: breeding time
« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2014, 07:32:43 pm »
My tup seems to have yellow crayon all over himself  ::) lol

Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: breeding time
« Reply #23 on: October 31, 2014, 08:36:29 pm »
I've never had the pleasure of getting a whiff of billy goat, thankfully, what do they smell like.

Rank, sweet, heavy and rank. 

waterbuffalofarmer

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Mid Wales
  • Owner of 61 Mediterranean water buffaloes
Re: breeding time
« Reply #24 on: October 31, 2014, 11:39:48 pm »
I kept a Billy goat once and he stank, so much that my neighbour wouldn't go anywhere near the field he was in. :roflanim:
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Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: breeding time
« Reply #25 on: November 01, 2014, 07:43:19 am »
I forgot to add that the smell sticks and takes some shifting.  After close encounters there is still a whiff about things even after going through the washing machine.

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: breeding time
« Reply #26 on: November 01, 2014, 08:23:39 am »
NOW you tell me!!  ;D

I have my doubts as to whether he'll be able to reach without a step anyway  :roflanim: .
I thought that about our bull last year but he managed just fine. Love will find a way  ;D

I still have my doubts!  He spent all of yesterday enthusiastically painting Ailsa's bum yellow, but from what we could see with binoculars (filthy pervs that we are!), part A was still a good 6 inches away from part B.

The wee fella's certainly up for it. I'm just worried I'm going to have to make him some stilts out of baked bean cans or something. Can someone put my mind at rest?  I'm currently trying to figure out a contingency plan if they all start repeating on us in a fortnight's time  :-\ .
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: breeding time
« Reply #27 on: November 01, 2014, 08:47:54 am »
Taylor's covered eight out of fifteen.  :fc:

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: breeding time
« Reply #28 on: November 01, 2014, 08:49:06 am »
Cool. How's his diary looking for a fortnight's time Rosemary?  :roflanim:
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: breeding time
« Reply #29 on: November 01, 2014, 08:56:39 am »
An arrangement could be made  :)

 

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