The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bangbang on May 31, 2012, 07:29:28 pm
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Our small paddock is only 6m from our cottage, so last october when
we aquired a Billy (stinky) for the pygmy's so he was put in that paddock,
Mistake No1. If the wind direction is just right and if a window is left open we
have a new air freshner.
Mistake No2. He likes to butt the fence posts at 4.30am. Well I'm never late for
work at least. When funding allows we'll relocate him somewhere else (Norway)
Ah wel,l back to reading posts and lay-out diagrams on the perfect smallholding. :)
and manuals
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;D ;D ;D
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Poor 'Stinky Butt-er' he needs his fence padded.
Don't you have some squishy filled potato sacks to put around ;D
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When I worked on a goat farm, I got quite used to the billy smell. Mind you, I don't think everybody else did... Because I smelled so nicely of female goat, the billies used to rub up against me - and then the nannies got rather interested in me! Fortunately, I rarely left the farm. And when I did, I had a major scrub down with nicely smelling soap first! 8)
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Guaranteed to get you :
Head of the post office queue
A check out to yourself in tesco
your own cashier in the bank
Amazing how the space opens up around you. :-J
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Sadly I don't notice the smell anymore - it's just those around me .........
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Sadly I don't notice the smell anymore - it's just those around me .........
ditto OH says i stink of boar pig all the time but to be honest i think he's just sensitive because i can't.........or am i just that used to it? ;D
Mandy :pig:
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Amazing how the space opens up around you. :-J
Oh yes, it does!
I once returned from a shearing course on the bus - nobody sat next to me, and the man behind me didn't stop grumbling all the time I was on... And that was just ordinary sheep! ;D
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You know I cannot say I can smell my Billy. Nobody has mentioned the smell either so I dont know if I am used to it or what! I call my Billy Jester cause he always has things hanging off his horns like a jesters hat.
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Coffee soap!! Every billy goat owner needs coffee soap ;) I see a huge demand for it every September for a few months :thumbsup:
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somewhere along my life journey I have obviously lost my sence of smell and for the life of me I can't see why people have a problem with billy goats ;D we have 3 and I love them all :love:
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My girl stunk for days after her 'honeymoon', shut in a loose box for five days with a billy.
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A little bit different but i used to work in a factory that made plastic bags and everybody and everything used to smell of burning plastic. I once left a chocolate biscuit in my locker for a couple of weeks and when i went to eat it it tasted of burnt plastic :P
If you nipped to the shops or the bank without showering first even if you change your clothes it is fun to watch the staff start sniffing and then looking for the source of the burning plastic smell :innocent:
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jools66 could have been worse if you worked in a rubber factory :innocent:
years ago i worked in govan in Glasgow went into an ethnic minority shop for a bounty bar it tasted of the curry they cooked in the back room :farmer:
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The farmyard or stable smell gets everywhere. Barclays bank in Newmarket on damp Friday afternoons smells like the stables for the Household Cavalary. All the stable hands go and cash their pay checque and wipe their boots on the carpet as the queue. Actually the bank now has vinyl floors !!
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Don't you just love it when the kiddies are petting the billy goats at a show or open farm. You just know what the car is going to smell like on the way home. :goat: :bouquet:
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I have my own special washing basket because all my clothes reek of sheep, and in this weather, wet sheep.
However, the 'special basket' is a hangover from the days when I was a fish farmer - now there's a smell to get people out of you way - old trout.
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My mother informed me I always stink of horse muck, my favorite smell.
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a few years ago,i spent a lovely afternoon with our goats trimming feet worming & stuff & made a big fuss of the billies.
well got home & a friend asked me to go to bingo with her,so of we went.
sat in the village hall the heaters were on full blast & it was full of old folks.
as time went on i noticed we were sat on our own i'm sure we were surounded by pple when we got there.
after about an hour i noticed a faint odour,after another 30 mins the billy goat smell was so bad it was making my eyes water.
never been so embarassed.
but yeah you get used to the smell,just a shame nobody else does.