Is spreading ripe chicken muck 'completely unacceptable'?

[nick...]

I’m sure the overnight rain will have helped the problem
Nick...

 

[robs1]

I once mixed some dry breeder litter with some sloppy cow sh!t, when we spread it it smelt like dog sh!t, light breeze blew it to the local town, had the council on my back big style although we were ploughing it in as we spread, two spreaders against one plough wasnt quick enough.
Didnt do it again though

 

[PSQ]

I wonder if some 'uninitiated' posters appreciate the full potency of the stuff: there's rank, and then there's chicken sh!t. I had some the latter delivered years ago, and cancelled the order after the first load as it was 'far far worse than anticipated'.

- Currently have 1000t of pig muck on farm (and rising) ready for autumn, and it smells like roses in comparison.

 

[wilber]

Ive had chicken muck spread right round the house. Yes it smells but all sh!t stinks. just sounds like another moaner.

 

[roscoe erf]

no

 

[Henarar]

Is it really that bad? We used to spread deep litter from laying hens with rotaspreaders on to grassland back years ago with tractors with open cabs and never really noticed much smell, why is the stuff now so bad ?

 

[roscoe erf]

Is it really that bad? We used to spread deep litter from laying hens with rotaspreaders on to grassland back years ago with tractors with open cabs and never really noticed much smell, why is the stuff now so bad ?

noses are more sensitive these days have you seen the nose on a snowman

 

[Daniel]

Behold, the offending fields were cultivated by 7.45 last night and the air smells sweet again.

 

[BBC]

As a student working on a farm near Swindon was asked to spread some chicken muck. Whether nobody else wanted to do it so the student had to I don’t know, but it did stink and reminded me why I never wanted to have anything to do with chickens.

Field was upwind of Swindon and listening to local radio that evening there was a report on the news about this unexplained smell which had hit the town centre that afternoon .....

However worst smell I have come across was being in a field where a contractor was spreading abattoir waste. That was rank and stomach turning.

 

[Two Tone]

Behold, the offending fields were cultivated by 7.45 last night and the air smells sweet again.View attachment 862499

Ah! Just ewe heng on a minute boy!

Woke up this morning and the wife said “WTF is that smell?”
“Smells like chicken sh!t to me” I said. “But it can’t be as nobody has chickens round here! I bet some bar-steward from miles away has been spreading it and hasn’t cultivated it in soon enough!”

Now we know who..............!


Must have been ultra-stinking stuff to have travelled 120 miles west against the wind, mind?


But it does remind me of a story I heard when I lived in Suffolk and they build the Chicken-sh!t powered Power Station at Eye. A Chap was complaining that his telly had gone on the blink. Somebody told him it was caused by the Chicken-sh!t-lectric!

 

[Flat 10]

Ah! Just ewe heng on a minute boy!

Woke up this morning and the wife said “WTF is that smell?”
“Smells like chicken sh!t to me” I said. “But it can’t be as nobody has chickens round here! I bet some bar-steward from miles away has been spreading it and hasn’t cultivated it in soon enough!”

Now we know who..............!


Must have been ultra-stinking stuff to have travelled 120 miles west against the wind, mind?


But it does remind me of a story I heard when I lived in Suffolk and they build the Chicken-sh!t powered Power Station at Eye. A Chap was complaining that his telly had gone on the blink. Somebody told him it was caused by the Chicken-sh!t-lectric!

A lot is burnt now isn’t it?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Nothin like it for grass growth . Ive cut my bagmuck too nothing

 

[Two Tone]

A lot is burnt now isn’t it?

Last I heard about the one at Eye, was that they were having trouble, because the burnt stuff could no longer be classed as a fertiliser and had become Industrial waste, requiring a licence that cost more than the stuff was worth.

But that was several years ago and I haven’t heard the latest.

 

[Cowcorn]

Its always best to get big signs with " ORGANIC FARMING IN PROGRESS " to stick on the sides of the spreader when spreading anything to toxic like chicken muck .
A sign or the two in the gateways helps tighten the shite in the local object to anything types . Might even make them wish that organic wasnt so smelly or that bag fert is maybe that bad . Seriously though c sh!t needs to be ploughed down fast , get a contractor to help you and stay ahead of the spreader .

 

[traineefarmer]

We mix layer manure with straw cattle manure. The chicken stuff is potent, but there are worse smells. We had a bad year storing potatoes a few years ago and tipped several tons among the manure to rot them down and prevent re-growth. When you hit a patch of those in the heap it made you want to lose your guts!

The moral of this thread is this: As farmers we do some things that the public don't understand/appreciate or simply can't stomach - be it an arable farmer spraying his cereals with scary yellow herbicides, a livestock farmer euthanasing a sick lamb or the OP spreading some stinky poop.

We all know what these things are because often we don't like doing it ourselves. So it's best done out of sight or at times when there are no sensitive eyes or noses about or if it must be done publically then do it to absolute best practice.

 

[Sharpy]

What exactly are you meant to do with sh!t if you don't spread it?

 

[traineefarmer]

Last I heard about the one at Eye, was that they were having trouble, because the burnt stuff could no longer be classed as a fertiliser and had become Industrial waste, requiring a licence that cost more than the stuff was worth.

But that was several years ago and I haven’t heard the latest.

The one at Thetford turns it onto Fibrophos.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

What exactly are you meant to do with sh!t if you don't spread it?

Talk it

 

[holywell farmer]

Its that time of year again when the muck store gets emptied and spread, and i'll be honest, it really stinks.

However for years we've spread on one farm with no complaints. 18 months ago we took on another farm a few miles up the road. I spread some muck there yesterday late afternoon with a hired muckspreader.

Early this afternoon, inside the 24hr limit for incorporating, I recieved a phone call from the arable farmer across the road (who has never troubled himself to come and say hello to his new neighbour) telling me it was totally unnaceptable to spread chicken muck and that he would be reporting me.

I'm cultivating it in at the moment, but that isn't going to stop the smell immediately.

What do the collective think? The muckspreader had sat here a week in the rain doing nothing so the hire company are keen for me to get on, I don't have the cultivating capacity to keep right up tight behind it, should I expect more leeway from a fellow farmer?

I mean the stuff stinks, but I assume he eats eggs, surely he realises the sh*t has to go somewhere?!

No people Moan about compost chicken muck or even lime spread away I say !

 

[Chae1]

Behold, the offending fields were cultivated by 7.45 last night and the air smells sweet again.View attachment 862499

Are you in the bedroom with his wife!?

Its amazing how flat those fields are!