Do kosher sour pickles smell bad or are mine rotten?!

I have had the same experience not once but twice now.
I bought Strub's Full Sour Kosher Dill pickles, and I noticed they tasted different than they used to, and just like you said, they tasted like a barnyard or a cow! I thought that maybe my tastebuds were off...but then I bought another jar about 6 months later, and they taste exactly the same. I wonder if they changed the recipe? They never used to taste like this. I used to really love kosher dills, but now I can't bring myself to eat them anymore.
However, I didn't get sick, so they are not bad.
Were your's by any chance Strub's too?

Kosher pickles can be sour or half sour, but both would contain a lot of garlic and pickling spices, which would not smell like a barnyard. Half-sour pickles are more crisp and cucumber then sour pickles. Barnyard smells usually smell like animal and fowl manure.. If they really have bad odor bring them back, The canning process may have been flawed and you have mold growing in jar of pickles.

generally spoiled pickles will also be soft and not firm and crisp.
It may just be a bad brand.
By all means take them back if you don't like them.
And no they should not smell like a barn yard of any kind.

How do you propose that we describe a smell to you? Even your barnyard, how do we know what you think a barnyard smells like?

Its bad, throw it away!