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07/29/08, 12:48 PM
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How do you do it?
Joe is in rut boy he stinks but despite the fact I still have to pet him!!!!!!!!!!! After all hes my sweet buck.... 
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07/29/08, 12:50 PM
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Uhm, I stay as far away from my stinky boy as possible! You get it on you and it doesn't come off.  LOL
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07/29/08, 12:51 PM
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07/29/08, 12:58 PM
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Minelson he follows me around like a puppy he will even ignore the girls to come to when I call him...Did I mention hes a nice buck with good manners.(grin) yep I love him....
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07/29/08, 01:37 PM
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My boys are housed outside. the have a calf hutch and that is were they stay . this years buckling is tooo sweet and I might still love him when he stinks .
patty
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07/29/08, 02:15 PM
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I use a plastic hoof pick with the brush on it to scratch between and behind the horns (Boer).
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07/29/08, 02:18 PM
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I let my dd do the lovin' on our bucks! She actually LIKES the way the bucks smell. I stay as far away from the stinky things as I can.
I also try to remember to have a pair of gloves handy for when I do need to handle them during rut, but I'm really good at forgetting where I put the gloves, so I end up doing a lot of scrubbing.
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07/29/08, 02:24 PM
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i put on a uniform/coveralls and let him rub all over me to his hearts content..........well, almost....
really, you don't want to ostracize the fellers, I want to keep a hands on approach with them.
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07/29/08, 02:36 PM
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I love my stinky boys. Mine aren't overly friendly as they were dam raised, but they're mannerly and like attention occasionally.
I'll be butchering my buck soon here. I'll miss Mr. Stinky. 
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07/29/08, 03:25 PM
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why hide it?
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I love my stinky boys, and the bucks aint bad either 
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07/29/08, 03:52 PM
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Love my boys, even the ones that stink. Some people think I'm crazy that I let them give me kisses. They just don't understand.
Last edited by hoofinitnorth; 07/29/08 at 03:57 PM.
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07/29/08, 04:20 PM
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Holding your nose doesn't help!
OMG there are few things that stink worse than a buck. Let's see.... ok I can't think of anything right off that makes me gag more than a stinky ole goat. NO rutty-nasty bucks here. We'll have to have other means to get goaties. I'm so glad does and goatlings don't stink - not even their poo berries.
A former goat snob, but remaining a stink snob!! Paul
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07/29/08, 04:29 PM
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Not much worse than when you have multiple bucks trying to out perfume each other...lol. Thankfully most of the 11 bucks on our farm currently are youngsters. 6 are this year's kids. So only five mature bucks and one dud trying to out perfume each other. The youngsters won't spend as much time around the cycling does and they just don't seem to have as potent a smell their first breeding season.
They get handled during breeding season because I spend the months of August and September "hand" breeding. So I have to go into the buck pen(s) and collect my buck while keeping the other boys from running past me. Walk them to their pen and then bring the lady(ies) over. Then I have to do the reverse...again keeping a handle on the other boys. This year, they will be clipped for sure before I remove a buck. Last year I was trying to pull out a somewhat shy buck out of the breeding pen. He was a 3 year old Boer. My 4 year old Boer/Saanen and 2 year old Nubian tried to fly past me. I let the Nubian go but grabbed ahold of the Boer/Saanen and held on for life. One stinky buck leg in each hand...lol
They get attention, not quite as much as when they aren't in rut.
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07/29/08, 05:58 PM
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smells like summer to me!
seriously, two of my kids don't mind it so much, so they love on him daily. Then we wash clothes!
And he always get at least a kind word and a pat pat from me when I get home of an evening. he's a sweet BIG boy!
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07/29/08, 06:20 PM
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We "borrowed" a ND buck for 4 weeks and my wife was ready to move out. You could smell him from the house and their pens are about 200' away. The kids would work in the barn and come back smelling like "Orlando" even though they hadn't touched him at all.
Funny, an Ober breeder near us runs several bucks on her place and they only smell if you go right up to them. Ours could perfume our entire property just by standing there (and weeing on his beard)
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07/29/08, 06:25 PM
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I cant stand the smell but still cant stop my self from petting him....
Is it true that having a stinky buck around will bring deers in?....I sure hope so
Will a bath help cut the smell if so what can I wash him in?
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07/31/08, 05:35 PM
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Hee hee, for bucks I have 1 4-year-old, 1 2-year-old, 2 yearlings, and a bunch of baby bucks six months and under (yep, I BOUGHT some of them, lol)! WHOOEE they can be odoriferous! But I don't mind! I think every buck smells a bit different and some really are bad, though.
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07/31/08, 05:45 PM
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I shave all the breads on my bucks.... Thats all, no bread to hold pee = NO SMELL! :P
Very simple.
Patty.
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07/31/08, 06:12 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sungirl
I shave all the breads on my bucks.... Thats all, no bread to hold pee = NO SMELL! :P
Very simple.
Patty.
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I think, hope, you mean beards?
And bucks pee on their faces, heads, legs, bellies and everyone else! LOL
Its also not just pee, they have scent glands and their bodies change odor.
None of us mind buck smell.
Go spend some time on a pig farm. Bucks are heavenly to smell after a day of pigs.
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