Is spreading ripe chicken muck 'completely unacceptable'?

[Hilly]

tell him to bugger off and mind his own business .

 

[Lexion1000]

Sure, but avoiding spreading on a Friday with a hired muckspreader which has been on stop for weeks, with a que of farmers waiting to get it.....?

Fair enough, it was only a suggestion for the future, might avoid some hassle. Some people are born to be a nuisance.

 

[Daniel]

There are 10 houses within range of the fields, I think the safest thing to do would be to drop a dozen eggs to each one with an apologetic note.

No point antagonising everyone and it might help the non farmers make the connection between food and the smell.

 

[Pilatus]

Sounds like he’s a bit of a pain, fair enough, It stinks and it’s not that pleasant but to go straight to saying he would report you is a bit offside. He must have an axe to grind.

Perhaps he is just the spokesman if he is “Pussy Whipped”

 

[Highland Mule]

There are 10 houses within range of the fields, I think the safest thing to do would be to drop a dozen eggs to each one with an apologetic note.

No point antagonising everyone and it might help the non farmers make the connection between food and the smell.

? Get it done tonight. Right now.

 

[milkloss]

I like the idea of ringing to apologise and mention you've still got a few hundred tonne to shift and, as you are a nice neighbour, will be giving it to an arable mate of yours to get it away from the area.

 

[Daniel]

I like the idea of ringing to apologise and mention you've still got a few hundred tonne to shift and, as you are a nice neighbour, will be giving it to an arable mate of yours to get it away from the area.

I've spread the lot!

 

[GeorgeK]

Here's hoping your crops romp away green and lush and his are thin, hungry and patchy because the land's never had muck

 

[betweenthelines]

Lots of industries do things that the public may not like.

Traffic in and out of factories, unavoidable noise, fumes etc.

I live a few hundred metres from both an animal feed mill and a factory that makes deserts and custards. Sometimes the smell can be quite obnoxious, (but I'm not saying which is the worst) but as most of the locals work in one or the other, everyone puts up with it.

The trouble these days is that just 1 person making a complaint can cause a lot of trouble-just sad in this case that it's farmer v farmer.

 

[Chae1]

If you aren't breaking any rules, i would just tell him to go ahead and report you, and carry on doing what your doing.

 

[Shutesy]

Fudging ridiculous that a farmer is acting like this towards you. As long as your attempting to incorporate within 24hrs I cant see any issue. Even if you cant quite manage that, by the time anyone official comes to look at it I'm sure you will have got it all cultivated and they will tell the bloke to stop wasting there time. Few eggs to each of the houses is a good idea though IMO. Might raise the awareness for a few folk of the link between the eggs and what your spreading.

 

[milkloss]

I've spread the lot!

he doesn't need to know that.

 

[Serup]

We don't spread muck we can't finish incorporating before neighbours get home friday afternoon. I only have 6 hours to incorporate and everyone knows it.
It just makes life easier this way, even though it is my right.

 

[honeyend]

You have not experienced smell unless you have stood on Doncaster station with the smell of De Mulders so thick you could cut it. Some days it seemed to cover the whole town. When I think childhood I think of that and the sewage farm. Happy days.

 

[czechmate]

Perhaps he is just the spokesman if he is “Pussy Whipped”

Exactly my thought

 

[Kidds]

It is absolutely horrible, especially when done on a nice spring weekend . Plant as many wildflower margins as you like but it’s the quickest way to lose the goodwill of your customers.

Couldn't agree more. Any muck is bad but chicken is just terrible. It is an antisocial thing to do at any time but at weekends it just the pits. I would never eat chicken again if it meant I'd never have to smell that again.
Top marks for endeavouring to incorporate it though, around here they don't bother so you get the full hit again every time it gets wet.

 

[Plain steer]

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?!

Did the farmer in question farm the land in question before you and it’s sour grapes

 

[ollie989898]

Its fine provided you incorporate as soon as you can. I don't see what the issue is. The countryside is full of smells. It isn't like it's being spread all year round. I would put notices throgh people's doors ahead of time explaining what and why and leave a few eggs. Invite families/kids to watch or visit the farm.

 

[Pilatus]

By coincidence I arrived home last to find large amount of chicken sh!t dumped on heaadland about 80yds from out cottage ok as long as wind blowing from the west

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Spread around a 1000 ton every year never had a problem . The cage muck thats tops for stink