What do billy goats do

Is this serious? And for what reason is "Billy" offensive? This just goes to prove, people, that "Political Correctness" really is a mental disease derived from a deep inner sense of guilt and a lack of self-worth.

Thanks for the warning and Goat, thanks for the advice! Thats why bucks are for breeding only. If you are looking for a campion goat get a wether they are friendly and do not have the buck smell.

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Reader Contribution By Maggie Bonham. Tags: buck goats , Maggie Bonham , Montana ,. Continue Reading. Share your thoughts. More Comments. Herb E-Book Projects Collection. Add to cart. While this compound has not been found in nature before, it has long been familiar to perfumers and artificial flavour manufacturers. A patent back in was filed for the use of 4-ethyloctanal as a fragrance chemical to enhance the bouquet of perfumes, toilet waters, colognes and other personal products, as well as for its use as a food additive to boost flavour.

The chromatographic analysis reveals a number of compounds in the family of carboxylic acids. These are widespread in nature, the simplest ones being formic acid found in ant venom and acetic acid, a dilute solution of which we know as vinegar. Propionic acid, which has three carbons, elicits the sensation of body odour, which is not surprising since it is produced by bacteria on the skin. Butyric acid is responsible for the characteristic smell of human vomit. It is also found in goat scent.

Even if you have never been near a goat, you may have encountered its dramatically unpleasant odour if you have ever sniffed the demposing seeds of the ginkgo biloba tree. They also contribute to the fragrance of male goats. Staying away from randy old goats is a good idea. Unless they have been deprived of their privates. Enter your keywords. Sign-Up Here. A billy goat, especially a wet one, is certain to horrify any nose.

Because along with the loss of manhood comes the loss of smell. Apparently, just the presence of a billy goat nearby makes nanny goats emit hormones with a similar fragrance. The first time I had the displeasure of handling a billy goat, I learned the hard way that their aroma is not just awful, it sticks to everything — your clothes, hair, skin — even after you shower. Only a single male is needed for stud services, even if you have an enormous herd.

So, since goats are born in equal numbers of males and females, something has to be done with all those extra males — especially since the sex-crazed antics of billy goats disrupt the lives of milking goats.

One option is to eat them. Another is to rent them out to people for brush-clearing services. In either case, they need to be relieved of the two tiny parts that make male goats stinky and ornery: their testicles.

And trying to coerce an intact billy goat to diligently eat weeds all day without busting out of the fence is a laughable thought at best. You secure a special rubber band around the skin above each testicle very tightly , and over the course of a month or two the testicles literally shrivel up and fall off.

My initial success renting out my male goats to eat weeds led me to dream bigger. When a wealthy land owner contacted me for brush control services I decided to invest in a bunch of meat goats.

The idea was to buy them as young as possible, raise them up fast on the kudzu, blackberry canes, privet, poison ivy, English ivy, and the other rambunctious plants that quickly colonize any unmaintained plot of land in Georgia, and then sell their meat to fancy restaurants in Atlanta.

I took my new goats straight from the livestock dealer to my new client, where two of them immediately bounded over the fence like a gazelle running from a lion. They were impossible to catch in the open landscape — the two rascals would scamper off as soon as I got within feet.

They started sleeping on his front steps, but every day when he opened the door they would take off. I came up with a solution, but it cost me a lot more than goat cheese: I hired a local veterinarian to come with a stun gun and shoot them. Half an hour later they woke up and went about their lives as if nothing had happened.

I ended up selling the goats to the landowner who years later informed me that he had slowly tamed them, and that they now eat out of his hand. Brian Barth is a contributing editor at Modern Farmer. He used to raise goats, chickens, pigs, and other critters on his farm in Georgia. But now he just writes about farming. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. I laughed so hard reading this article because for years, I have been talking about raising goats.

Not sure I am ready for such an adventure? Funny stuff! Did you know that goats are multipurpose? They provide us food and drinks and help us to produce food by giving us manure and urine thus they are also good at fertility boosting and preserving the environment. That would be quit a rodeo winning feat.