Author Topic: Still learning....  (Read 7048 times)

Bangbang

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Still learning....
« on: May 31, 2012, 07:29:28 pm »
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
 
 

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2012, 09:16:16 pm »
 ;D ;D ;D

Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2012, 09:23:21 pm »
Poor 'Stinky Butt-er' he needs his fence padded.
Don't you have some squishy filled potato sacks to put around  ;D

Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Aberdeenshire
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2012, 08:08:25 am »
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)

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2012, 08:19:23 am »
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

Brucklay

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Perthshire
    • Brucklay Pygmy Goats
    • Facebook
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2012, 08:56:25 am »
Sadly I don't notice the smell anymore - it's just those around me .........
Pygmy Goats, Shetland Sheep, Zip & Indie the Border Collies, BeeBee the cat and a wreak of a building to renovate!!

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2012, 09:18:16 am »
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:

Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Aberdeenshire
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2012, 02:22:19 pm »
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

Hermit

  • Joined Feb 2010
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2012, 02:57:48 pm »
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.

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
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Re: Still learning....
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2012, 05:05:34 pm »
Coffee soap!! Every billy goat owner needs coffee soap  ;)   I see a huge demand for it every September for a few months  :thumbsup:
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

trying

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Lincs Notts border
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2012, 11:21:33 pm »
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:

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2012, 11:26:33 pm »
My girl stunk for days after her 'honeymoon', shut in a loose box for five days with a billy.

jools66

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • Fife
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2012, 11:10:55 am »
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:
 

robert waddell

  • Guest
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2012, 12:44:15 pm »
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:

MAK

  • Joined Nov 2011
  • Middle ish of France
    • Cadeaux de La forge
Re: Still learning....
« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2012, 01:41:34 pm »
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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