My whole city stinks like chicken crap!

[mainegreen]

And so does where I work (Westbrook) and my whole commute! Ahhh, organic farming. It's good, but boy does it smell.

City folks turn up noses at country odor

Peee-yoo!
Like so many Portland residents and workers Monday morning, Clara Porter scrunched up her nose and inspected the soles of her shoes to see if she had stepped in dog doo.
A nearby construction worker shook his head and explained that a farm in Westbrook was spreading manure.
"It was horrible," said Porter, who said her Deering Highlands neighborhood reeked, as did other parts of the city. "It was overwhelming, and you have to wonder if it's healthy."
Not only is it healthy, says Llewellyn "Lew" Randall, it's essential to getting his grass and hay to grow well next year, providing food to sustain a herd of 300 or so cows on his 160-acre farm on Stroudwater Street in Westbrook.

[crim son]

1. One year when I lived in Brooksville, we cleared about

four cubic yards of chicken crap out of an old coop we had on the premises. I decided to see what it could do and so spread it thinly over a portion of my garden, about 40ft x 60ft. I then planted several different varieties of watermelon in the area, using black plastic as a mulch. Everybody said it was a waste of effort. It wasn't: I had a BOOMING crop of melons and not just the icebox size either. I also got gourds and pumpkins like crazy, but it was the watermelons that impressed. Chicken crap is fine stuff, indeed!

[CatholicEdHead]

2. That does not sound that bad

Try going by a rural industrial chicken farm in the middle of Iowa or a sugar beet processing plant in eastern North Dakota (off I-29). Those make sileage smell like an aeromatic purfume.

If it is organice than it is duluted than the hyper-concetrated pools of crap.

[mainegreen]

4. I think I'll stick with the few days of stinkyness!

[Gormy Cuss]

3. You could smell it at home?

The winds must have been blowing toward the ocean. We used to smell the paper mill in Westbrook in downtown Portland when the winds were just right -- or should I say, just wrong.

Manure spreading is a nasty odor. Bovine manure is worse than chicken.

[mainegreen]

5. Well, it does not smell as bad as the papermill used to.

That was vile. I have only ever smelled anything worse than downwind of a papermill once or twice in my life. That is a nasty smell.
They installed filters on the mill now, so mother warren no longer smells bad.

[AngryAmish]

7. Have you ever been to Gary, INd?

Not so bad now but that was one smelly toen.

[Broken_Hero]

6. man, chickens do stink badly...

especially when you get stuck behind a gut truck...whew...we have a Tyson chicken plant, and a Simmons Chicken plant in our area, and whew...I dont' even think fish stink as bad...to be honest, and I worked in a cold storage!