That smell…

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Put milking gloves on underneath 👌🏼

Is it only a farming thing where if something smells bad, footrot, lambs sticky bum, rotten lambs etc you have to smell it to see actually how bad it is? 3 of us here all do it to see how bad that smell actually is yet the casual labour who don’t do any farm work except for lambing don’t smell test things? 🤣
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Put milking gloves on underneath 👌🏼

Is it only a farming thing where if something smells bad, footrot, lambs sticky bum, rotten lambs etc you have to smell it to see actually how bad it is? 3 of us here all do it to see how bad that smell actually is yet the casual labour who don’t do any farm work except for lambing don’t smell test things? 🤣

Oh yes, sniff test obligatory 😂
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
No, it's a bloke thing.
If a woman offers you something to sniff, it is usually a pleasant aroma you will experience.
A bloke offers you something to smell it will always be something unpleasant and disgusting.
The girl here sniff tests everything but has a poor gag reflex so usually ends up being sick 🤣 yesterday it was a tennis ball sized lump of colostrum under a lambs tail which I pretended to eat, it’s just like caramel I told her, split it up for the dogs and it was stuck between all their teeth 😬🤣
 
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No, it's a bloke thing.
If a woman offers you something to sniff, it is usually a pleasant aroma you will experience.
A bloke offers you something to smell it will always be something unpleasant and disgusting.... and if the victim boaks, so much the funnier.
always makes me chuckle when I say to the wife “do my hands smell”?
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
I’ve posted it plenty of times before, but a good barrier cream like Dermashield, applied before ‘diving in’, prevents it permeating into your skin. It just washes off under a tap afterwards.👍

The same product also stops your skin drying out/cracking from the continual wet/dry cycle over lambing too. :)
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
Washing your hands using toothpaste helps to get rid of the smell (well, masks it)
I got bollocked the other week for using several different types of the Mrs’s fancy shampoo and body wash stuff too try and get rid of the smell. I’d only been in bed 10 minutes when that little grumpy voice piped up “you still stink of sheep.” 😂
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
This stuff has a nice smell - used these pre pandemic, now their just dirt cheap.
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Flatlander

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
Worst smell ever I think was ditch cleaning and a woolless stinking Sheeps corpse bobbed to the surface like some kind of death stink torpedo.
I was heaving 😷😷
I killed a skunk with the swather one year swathing canola. Forgot to pull the body out of the row and wife picked it up and shoved it thru the combine. Had to dump half a hopper full rather than contaminate the whole bin. Combine stank real rank for days until it got steam cleaned. I cracked a joke telling her not to leave her undies in the cab but the humour was wasted. 😬. Some women are too sensitive.
 

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
Having to pull a rotten lamb when I was supposed to be taking my family out for Sunday Lunch , already had my suit on washed ready to go, well the final straw , they had to go , every last one of them , peg leg went in the freezer
 

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