Author Topic: How many girls do you have to have before its worth getting a billy? (Read 10053 times)

sokel · « **Reply #30 on:** February 24, 2013, 09:08:18 pm »

He is definatly fertile, his first kids are due late march.
At first I thought it was because we where used to the smell but a family member who is obcessed with the smell of billys came to visit and even she said he does not smell

Penninehillbilly · « **Reply #31 on:** February 26, 2013, 02:31:23 pm »

I read somewhere Boer males aren't as smelly as the dairy breed males?

But now I'm worried - did I just get so used to the smell as it got stronger that I just didn't realise how bad it was? But I could smell my Toggy boy as I went down to the field shelter, so I'm convinced because he was running out all the time the billywhiff didn't build up on him too much. Maybe if he was laying down on wet ground that would wash a bit off? and they did play out in the rain.

ballingall · « **Reply #32 on:** February 26, 2013, 09:22:34 pm »

Getting used to the smell is definitely a hazard.... Haven't heard if Boers smell less or not.

Beth

Lesley Silvester · « **Reply #33 on:** February 26, 2013, 11:04:11 pm »

Cloud's father is a boer and I can't say the smell was strong when I met him. On the other hand, when I met Pom's Sanaan father I could smell him from the other side of the barn he was in.