Distance from Chicken Farm/Sheds

Davesnave

theartfullodger wrote: »

You'll get used to it after a week:. i.e. roughly when you.become a vegetarian

There's an element of truth in the first part of that. Country people's noses (brains) adapt to country smells.


I pass a big chicken farm on my way to town and pick up the smell within about 4 or maybe 500m, so I agree, you'd probably be OK in that location

Niv

I worked in an office approx. 1mile from a chicken farm. You could smell it from time to time when the wind was in the appropriate condition. It smelt like sweaty feet.

theFlash

Thanks, that's useful to know.

Are you sure it wasn't someone else in the office ;-)

gomer

I recently saw a sign on the gate of a farm with a few houses nearby. It said "This property is a farm. Farms have animals. Animals make funny noises, smell bad & have sex outdoors. It you can't cope with the above don't buy a property next to a farm".

Obviously had complaints from someone who decided to move next door to a farm, then complain about living next door to a farm. I think the farmer had a point. If you're already doubting it then don't do it. You're going to get smells etc. That's what farms are about.

poorweelass

Chicken house in the next field from mine and tbh the only time it whiffs is when they empty it out every six weeks. However get stuck behind a trailer with the manure in it will have your eyes watering and gagging


Its the slurry spreading which can really stink for days and you have to be quick to get the washing in as the smell of slurry permeates everything

theFlash

I think we're talking 250k chickens upwards in this instance, which I understand can have a very specific aroma due to the nature of the sheds, unlike the usual farm smells, which I quite like.



Just reading about it puts you off buying your standard supermarket chicken again.

poorweelass

Our neighbours chicken house, just the one, holds upwards of 20k chickens, so just multiply that amount by the houses really. They used to hold more but the average is now 16k

Seriously the smell is bad on the cleaning day, if the lads are held up then the doors are left open once the chickens are collected until its cleaned ready for the new ones, that can be rank in the height of summer

Believe me, you only think you like the smell of the country. Horse country is sweet smelling but I like in cow country, cow, sheep and chickens, and its pretty ripe

But you do get used to it. The worse is if a farmer is illegally spreading human slurry, that is a smell that takes a while to get out of the nostrils

Slithery

Which way is the wind blowing?

gomer

macman

The farmer fails to specify if it's him or his animals that are having sex outdoors?
And he's mis-spelled 'odours'.