[Karen W. (OP)]

My daughter has moved home to my property to save to build or buy a manufactured home and live here. In her presence this last year, she started a bit of a farm.. 9 goats, 8 chickens, 1 white silkie Rooster and 7 hens. 2 Dogs! She has quite the menagerie started. The most odd thing I have seen, is the male goats urinating in their own mouths!! Goats can be quite noisy little critters but this is just gross! And they can really smell particularly bad because of it! So why do they do this? I have not seen any of the females do it, but a couple of the unneutered males. Is this a male goat thing or just any Goat? Why do they do this and how can they physically do it,,,they look like contortionists whilst doing it. LOL.. Please enlighten my non-farmer mind...!

[paul cotter]

That does sound gross and I have never heard of such a practice. The urine of many unneutered mammals( male ) does frequently have a strong odour. The "boss"(Alancalverd vernacular) and myself run a small scale cat shelter-tom cat pee is the bane of my life!

[Karen W. (OP)]

Agreed! When the kids were older tenagers we had about 3 nubian goats over several years, of which I NEVER seen them do this at all. So I am quite baffled! They were Nubian and Alpine. These current Goats are Nigerian Dwarves! They are also much more vocal and  loud little varmints...LOL

[Karen W. (OP)]

That does sound gross and I have never heard of such a practice. The urine of many unneutered mammals( male ) does frequently have a strong odour. The "boss"(Alancalverd vernacular) and myself run a small scale cat shelter-tom cat pee is the bane of my life!

Yes Tom cat pee is really strong and odorous for sure! Good on  you two for taking care of the cats.. I love cats!

[Karen W. (OP)]

Here is a little photo of two of the 2023 spring babies...

[alancalverd]

I suspect a lot of the answer is "because they can". Goats are curious, intelligent and competitive animals who will explore anything and everything. Unneutered males? Think teenage boys, with four legs.

[Karen W. (OP)]

I suspect a lot of the answer is "because they can". Goats are curious, intelligent and competitive animals who will explore anything and everything. Unneutered males? Think teenage boys, with four legs.

Thats pretty funny.. I dont remember boys being that gross, but I was pretty shy, so was not around a lot of teen boys and only one living brother... who was pretty mellow. LOL.. But I get your meaning...

LOL  Yes, unneutered ...the ones that do it. This one in particular does it a lot,  He had a op to neuter him but he had a resected testical they could not get to. so he remains potent.. so to speak, and wears a chastity belt so as not to impregnate his female counterparts and pass on the problem with the testical...