The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: sokel on May 02, 2013, 09:16:22 pm
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William is over a year old now and he honestly does not have any smell at all. Several of our Goat friends have commented and friends that do not have animals say they cant smell anything.
Is this a Boer thing or are we just lucky, If its luck long may it last !!
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Yu wait til this autumn................you might revise your opinion !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Makes no difference to us as he is here to stay, I am suprised he is not smelling yet as several friends have dairy Billys younger than him and they stink
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we have a friend that breeds & shows boer's in my experience of their billies the smell is almost non existant compaired to my parents dairy males.
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Thanks for that, We will see how it goes with William. I would have thought that he would have started to smell when the girls where in Season and he was mating them if he was going too.
Will be great if he does not as we may need a second Billy at some point down the line
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Thanks for that, We will see how it goes with William. I would have thought that he would have started to smell when the girls where in Season and he was mating them if he was going too.
Will be great if he does not as we may need a second Billy at some point down the line
best keep billies down wind rather than down the line :innocent:
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The angora buck I hired in last autumn only smell a little up close, got stronger when the does came in season then faded again. He was 18 months. The mature bucks at his home farm stank even out of season.
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Well touch wood William still does not smell at all , Had a friend here that judges and he could not belive it ::)
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we have 2 billies and the youngest is the one who sprays most (he probably feels like the underdog) - but yes - wait for the breeding season ...
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If he's running with the girls he won't smell as much,the further away the stronger he has to make it
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He isn't running with them. He has his own shed with a billy kid for company
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Its a bit early....................Sept Oct November are usually the worst months. Have had a Nubian in the past you could smell half a mile away !!!!!!
As they get older and therefore more mature, the smell really gets going.
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My three pygmy males smell all year round, as they seem to think they should be breeding all the time. Darren the AN boy, only smells in the Autumn/winter time, and even then he does not smell anywhere near as bad as the small boys - and he is a lot better behaved regarding chasing females as well.....Edward is 6 months, and is already smelling. I am avoiding fussing him now, which he finds most upsetting!!!
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I wouldn't want a male here. the goat yard is too near the house and we are in a built up area so I'm sure people would complain.
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Oh, you soon get used to the billy smell - you hardly notice it - but it does stick to you clothing, hands etc......so suppose you think its the norm. I used to have a BA male, whose house was right opposite a barn conversion, so they would smell him. But, my smallholding was here before the barn conversion, so whoever lives there has to stand smells, noise etc.....and believe me, my animals can cause a racket.
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Some people complain about anything ;) A friend of mine was having to move her goats to her garden through loss of facilities at the local farm. She contacted trading standards etc and got their advice and then a month later had a visit because her neighbour had complained about the smell. She took them down the garden to the shed and run and pointed out that she hadn't even moved them yet! ::)
Never got bothered again ;D
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;D Such a shame the complainant was not there too. Would loved to have seen the look on the busybodies face when the cause of the "smell" was not yet there!!! People have nothing better to do, than poke their nose into things.
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Last summer my neighbour (who loves my goats) said that she was getting a lot of flies in the house. Her neighbour the other side said she was too and blamed my goats. Interesting that I wasn't getting any more flies than usual.
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;D Flies are everywhere in summer - but suppose people automatically blame animals.
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Last summer my neighbour (who loves my goats) said that she was getting a lot of flies in the house. Her neighbour the other side said she was too and blamed my goats. Interesting that I wasn't getting any more flies than usual.
i got blamed for flies when my grass was too long (was growing hay) :roflanim:
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:roflanim: