Do bucks ALWAYS stink?

[Mini-M Ranch]

I mean, I know that every buck stinks. Is it worse during rut, or is it always the same level of stinkiness?

I've got mini-nubian girls, and am not sure what to do about buck services. At the farm where I got two of the girls, she has a buck that she is done using in her breeding routine. She says she will give him to me to start our herd, as he is unrelated to any of my girls.

Thing is, when we were there to get our girls a few weeks ago, we could smell him when we got out of the car. I mean he was ripe and smelling BAAAAAD!!!! I don't find the smell that offensive, but I do have a close neighbor and don't want to stink them out. So, I am wondering if he will perhaps not stink as bad after breeding season.

He is a very sweet boy, not aggressive at all and very people oriented. He is also pretty ""typey" for an F2. If we use him , that will give us F3 kids in the spring.

 

[ThornyRidge]

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now how would you describe stink??? buck scent is an acquired smell.. one that I have become quite familiar with and tend to not notice as much anymore. My bucks I guess you would say stink most of the time.. however they seem to be more "ripe" in the fall/now. depending on how the wind blows I catch a "whiff" .. I have 3 nigerian dwarf bucks.. and they can be stinky little boys!!! I enjoy my bucks and they are verrrry friendly so again this scent is something I have just got used to.. sometimes I do have to wash my hands several times because just touching hay bags/buckets and such leaves the smell on ya!!! If you have the set up/space and willingness to put up with some smell I would recommend as opposed to tracking down someone for driveway breedings that you have to time just right and then be leary of exposure to disease.

 

[Roll farms]

We hardly notice Hurricane's "perfume" until about late July. THEN he just flat out REEKS until November or so.
I haven't noticed our Boer boys smelling nearly as bad as the dairy bucks do...and good gravy, the Ob buck can knock you down from 20 paces.
In short, yes you can smell them up close year round, but the realllly rank time is fall.

 

[SarahFair]

So what kind of smell is it? Like a wild smell or a pee smell?

 

[Mini-M Ranch]

Maybe I would describe it as wild pee. lol

Sort of smells like a combination between teenage boy dirty sweat socks, Fritos corn chips, and maybe a touch of rotten cheese.

So I guess some smell worse than others, and some smell bad all the time and some only really horrible sometimes? This doesn't seem helpful at all. hahaha

 

[SarahFair]

Maybe I would describe it as wild pee. lol

Sort of smells like a combination between teenage boy dirty sweat socks, Fritos corn chips, and maybe a touch of rotten cheese.

So I guess some smell worse than others, and some smell bad all the time and some only really horrible sometimes? This doesn't seem helpful at all. hahaha

That sounds AWFUL!
I think Ill just skip out on having a buck

 

[cmjust0]

So what kind of smell is it? Like a wild smell or a pee smell?

They smell like someone rolled a dog turd in human hair and lit it on fire.


j/k..

But they are gross, and yeah...I've noticed in my experience that nubian bucks tend to smell differently and more and worse than boer bucks. Not that a boer buck doesn't stink...they do...it just seems to be a somewhat less obnoxious smell, and there's less of it than dairy breeds. Personally, I think it has to do with the laid-back, somewhat passive nature of most boers versus the LET'S GET IT ON NOW! attitude of the nubian bucks I've been around.. The nubians tend to be very, very, very, very proactive about trying to make themselves stink really bad -- especially if they're across a fence from the gals.

Total speculation, though.

By far, the stinkin'est buck I've ever been around was a vasectomized Nigerian Dwarf teaser..

 

[trestlecreek]

The smell does get stronger when they are in rut, but IMO, they do smell year round. If you pet one, you will come back to your house with the smell on your hands no matter what time of year it is,..LOL
You can bathe them though in the spring and late summer. It also depends on where you house them. My bucks are not real close to my house, so I never get a whiff of them, even in rut.
My husband wanted to move the pastures around and decided the bucks could come up here by the house! I reminded him that it would be fine with me, but ya know,.....don't forget, you would be smelling them everyday as you leave the house!!! LOL!!!
They are still in the back 40,... That move hasn't happened.

 

[cmjust0]

We bought a buck from some folks once who had something like 50 acres, yet everything they owned was fenced to within about 50' of their house...everything.

We bought the buck as a "young man," and it was late fall, so he was in full rut.. He was extra-reeky because he was in a pen with like four other bucks, and they were directly across a woven wire fence from probably a dozen or more does, many of which were obviously in heat.

...and this is all happening RIGHT OUTSIDE THEIR FRONT DOOR.

You could smell the bucks from the time you opened the car door in their driveway and I'm thinking...how in the world would you keep that smell from permeating your house, your furniture, your carpet, the clothes in your closets, your car's upholstry..everything you owned!?!? We're talking upper 20's on the "hobo power" scale, standing on their front stoop...50 being vomit-inducing, 100 being death by voluntary asphyxia.

Answer -- it's impossible. You can't keep it out of your home...not with that level of stenchola so close.. I know, because I stepped inside the house.



Perhaps the worst part was that the lady worked in an office!!! There's not a doubt in my mind that she came strolling in to work perfumed with "Eau de Chevre Pissent" every morning.

Can you even imagine?!?

I can't...I just couldn't live like that.

 

[trestlecreek]

Well, we don't have dogs or cats in our house either..... we're pretty sensitive to smell/hair around here....
Maybe their noses don't work? Some people do not smell real well?