Posted by dave2 on September 05, 2009 at 15:42:07 from (139.139.35.70):
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Posted by ray126 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 3, 09 at 7:28
I just don't know what to do. I live across from a chicken farm and the owner recently got some cows.
I can handle chicken smells, cow smells and have been for a year with no problems.
A few months ago the farmer brought in these HUGE round hay bales and put them near my property line.
They small really really bad. Like your standing in the middle of the local dump. A real sour smell. I'd hoped the smells would go away at some point but they have not.
I'm thinking of selling my house.
Is it normal for round bales of hay to smell so bad? I mean REALLY REALLY bad? Is there any info I can pass on to the farmer? Is he buying bad hay?
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Posted by marlingardener 8b (My Page) on Thu, Sep 3, 09 at 7:44
Sounds like the hay is rotting. If it was baled while it had a high moisture content, then wrapped in plastic, that can happen. At the least you can ask him to move the hay farther from your house. If the farmer bought the hay and put it on the fenceline, and hasn't visited it since, he may not know of the stench, or the cause of it.
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Posted by lavender_lass WA zone 4 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 3, 09 at 16:39
If the hay was bailed wet, it could be a fire hazard. Damp hay can smolder for months in the middle and then start a fire. I would let the farmer know immediately and make sure he checks on the hay and hopefully moves it. I would think he'd be responsible for any fire damages. That might encourage him to do something right away.
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Posted by fancifowl 5Pa (My Page) on Thu, Sep 3, 09 at 20:45
Sounds like haylage to me. Silage made from hay is riolled up a bit damp and ferments for cattle feed. It shouldnt smell that bad tho?? maybe he poked holes in the wrap moving them and air got in causing ther wrong kind of fermentaion to take place. The smell should ease up soon.
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Posted by mikes100acdreamfarm (My Page) on Fri, Sep 4, 09 at 3:04
It would definitely be haylage a type of silage made from hay bales. Regular hay is wrapped in either twine or netting. The plastic allows the moisture to be held to ferment it. It will have a sweetish sour fetid smell, somewhat unpleasant at first but it does diminish after a while. Maybe time to plant some aromatic vines on your fence row if it is too overpowering and he plans to store it there in the future.
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