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The Joys of farm life.........
William81
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100+ tons of chicken Manure was delivered yesterday and was spread over the soon to be planted corn field. It was an unfriendly wind all day today blowing the joy towards the house...tomorrow the wind is suppose to shifting to a more friendly direction !!!!
The vendor showed up today with a huge Politician (commonly knowns as a manure spreader 😀) and got it moved around. It was worked in with disc and will be finished tomorrow...
I look forward to a few days from now when I can stand to be in the yard for more than a few minutes !!!!
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You ought to try Anhydrous Ammonia on a hot day with little wind when the ground's dry and it escapes to come visit you in the cab of your tractor.
Thank you, but I think I will pass on that for sure !!
Not a farmer but live in the country surrounded by farm fields
Oh yes the enjoyable aroma of tons of chicken poop and a Suttle breeze embracing our house is a real joy
there is also a dairy farm about half mile north of us (good people ) we some times have the pleasure of the lagoons smell drifting
As the farmes say smell that .... sure smells like money to me
As a city kid who moved into the country the day my wife and were married and never looked back I much rather put up with a few days now and then of poop smell than the busy body and most of the people in town
Besides wally world could compete with most barn yards anyway lol
Grandpa use to get a big load delivered like that shown and spread it with the manure spreader. In Central Virginia it was very hot and humid sometimes at delivery. The old farmhouse had a shotgun breezeway in the center and the doors were open on both sides of the house to catch a breeze. What a stink if the timing was wrong. There were chicken carcasses mixed in with that manure. I guess in about 10 days or so those maggots turned into flies and the whole farm house was full of them. The old sticky flypaper that you pull out was hanging every where. -------------------------------------Ray
We had three commercial broiler houses on the farm . 36000 chickens at a time. Generated a bunch of free fertilizer for the farm. Got use to the smell over the years
I read somewhere that catfish farms are built below chicken pens. As the chickens poop, it feeds the catfish. Remember that when you order catfish at Cracker Barrel.
Or the Mekong delta, I've seen those shacks on stilts with the potty hole on the porch.
Oh the history Channel mountan men one of the fellows Eustace (sp) had his chickens under the hogs so they could eat what the pigs deposit after they eat he said it was just a way to not waste anything
neighbor used to muck his piggery on a hot summer day 😫
Been around all kinds of manure and IMO, pig poo is by far the worst smelling!
My oldest son raises a few alpaca's and brings me a load of their manure each spring for my garden beds. It is great stuff and can be used fresh (not composted) without harming plants.
If we ever get the snow to melt off I've got a few tons of chicken, horse, and cow manure I need to load up in the spreader and put out on the pastures. This time last year the cows were already turned out but this year there's still foot of snow out there. I might need to go buy one more large (4x4x8) bale of hay to keep 'em fed.
I know the feeling. One local store we like to shop at is right in the middle of a bunch of dairy farms. Some days when they are spreading the manure the smell can almost make your eye’s water it is that thick in the air.
When we first moved here there was a hog farm down the road to the south of us. He was a very irresponsible farmer. He would spray his pig poop over his fields only on days when the wind came out of the south. It was so bad you couldn't go outside it burned your eyes too much.
Then he finally sold the operation to a hog farmer that actually knew how to run a hog farm. Now it's very rare that we smell any hog poop.
Joe
I love that comment, (Politician) in reference to the spreader. I will have to show my wife that. He father was a Amish farmer, and I don't think she ever heard that term used.
I was always told, —that’s the smell of money.
Total farm is 164 acres.. The Neighbor has farmed the place for over 40 years. I do the paperwork, minor farm chores and stay out of the way most of the time...
I never heard that term until I moved to Missouri !