I kind of like it too--it reminds me of my boyhood, as we always had a bunch of cows. And compared to hog or chicken manure, cow poop is a downright mild odor.
Years ago there was a fairly large chicken farm about a mile from our house. I don"t think they moved manure all the time, but when they did, we really smelled it. I don"t know if they charged the land owners for the manure when the chicken farmers spread it, but lots of the fields in the area benefited greatly from the manure. I wish the chicken farm was still in operation, since some of my ground could sure use the fertilizer.
One time the chicken farm got their big "honey wagon" stuck real bad in the mud in the low spot in a neighbor"s field. They had to unload the liquified chicken manure in one big pile in order to be able to unstick the honey wagon. The owner tried to spread the pile out, but for years nothing would grow where the pile had been, and that area continued to smell like rotten chicken manure when I drove by. I always wondered what kind of discussions there were between the chicken farmer and the land owner, and what kind of a settlement they came up with. The chicken farm closed within a few years of that mess, and now the buildings are used to store boats.
I could put up with the smell just fine, but I am pretty sure my neighbors would gripe. My area is not so rural as it used to be, and there are many more people nearby living on 5 to 20 acre parcels.
I try to be a good neighbor, so I suppose I would forgo spreading a whole lot of manure on my property if it was still available. Not many cows around here anymore, and if people have a few, they use the manure on their own property. I need a little manure for my garden, but I may have to settle for horse poop, which IMHO is really inferior to cow, chicken or even hog manure for fertilizer.
But in real farm country, spread manure is part of the package--it is going to happen and it needs to happen. If neighbors cannot accept that, then they should not have ever moved to the country.
Cow manure isn"t bad at all. Chicken manure is tolerable after a couple of days. But hog manure is pretty tough--the odor seems to hang around for a really long time. But I suppose a person can get used to almost anything if you have to!
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