Buck stink!

[savingdogs]

I was warned but I'm getting my does bred using sweat instead of cash, so I'm caring for a buck for 45 days and will sell him at the end.

I do have an extra pen......he isn't in my main goat pen.

However, the does that have been with him REEK.....Should I bathe them? Will this get all over their normal housing if not? They are dairy goats so I do not want a bucky smell around.

I have never bathed my goats, do you just tie them out? Use dog shampoo? Dawn? tomato juice? Anything to get out that smell and make them nice again.

Will their bedding and quarters need to be changed and the walls washed?
Or is this gonna wear off?

Next year, the buck pen is going to be FARTHER AWAY from my bedroom window! Not that it is close now but we still get a good strong whiff when the wind is right........

 

[ksalvagno]

The smell will go away. I wouldn't wash your goats if it is cooler out now. You don't need them to get sick.

 

[savingdogs]

I have some dog and cat deodorizer here I was thinking of using on Molly. phew!

 

[Ariel301]

If the weather is good, you can bathe them when he is gone. Otherwise you would have to bathe them every day, as they would just get smelly again. I use dog shampoo or cheap human shampoo, put them on the milkstand, and wash like you would a dog. They don't really like it most of the time, though, so you want to be sure they are securely restrained!

As far as keeping your milk from getting bucky, what I do is milk as far away as I can from the buck (which isn't that convenient, unfortunately) and wash the girls' udders with soap and warm water before milking. So far the milk is all right, maybe a bit off tasting for drinking but fine for baking with.

 

[otherwhitemilk]

Yeah, definitely keep those does away when milking. Hopefully the wind will be in your favor!

 

[Emmetts Dairy]

The smell will go away. I wouldn't wash your goats if it is cooler out now. You don't need them to get sick.

I agree with Karen...it will go away...and its getting too cool to wash them...Its one of those necessary evils...and if he's gone in 45 days..it will be over soon enough... clothes pins???

 

[savingdogs]

Okay, if it won't linger I won't stress about it so much. I'm used to being all lovey-dovey with my goats and perhaps for the next 45 days Sebastian will have to be their entertainment! I noticed the smell is even on my little wether and he has not even been with him, just with the does who were.

 

[PattySh]

I jinxed myself. I wrote in earlier in the summer that last season my buck didn't stink......WELL he sure is making up for it now. AND he's peeing on his front legs. Way to go Patty for opening up your big mouth!!!!!!!! On another note my girls are not cycling yet at least the ones I want to breed early. The younger ones I want to hold off a few months are tho. Don't want to run the buck with does this year as we are using the raw milk and don't want the young ones bred this soon.. Sasha, my Alpine does has jumped the fence twice and gotten in with the buck 2 months running (under one fence and over the 2nd!). She showed no signs of heat last year and I never saw a breeding tho she was in with a buck but she got pregnant. She's my best milker so am pretty sure she's gotten herself preggers a little sooner than planned so I have to dry her off early ;(. Goats sure do keep you hopping!

 

[savingdogs]

Well he seemed to have success last night, I guess all that peeing on himself attracted my virginal little Ginger (for those of you who have been following this, the four-teated one).....ewwweeee!

Last night I believe he finally did the deed so I'm counting the days to .....brrrrr.....February. If impregnanted on September 11th, when should she kid? Sad, but it should make it easy to remember she was bred on September 11th.

We did get a good chuckle actually watching her try to evade him for a couple hours, but she could not help attracting him too. We only saw multiple attempts and no true success so I'm still going to put her back with him in 18 days just to be sure. He just has been trying to hump her for the past 18 hours straight, at some point I think he hit the mark! lol I didn't get a marking harness on him in time. My adolescent son found it much too funny!

 

[cmjust0]

9/11/2010 + 150 days = Tuesday, February 8th, 2011.