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[Ed Kennell 38,145]

The corporate farmer to my West spread several  hundred ton of chicken manure today.

Of course we had a 10MPH West wind today, so the brown cloud covered my lawn and garden.

Just need to keep the doors and windows closed till the next rain soaks it in the ground.

Four of these trucks were hauling all day...probably 20 truckloads.

 

[EB-80/8inPA 1,641]

Wow, that’s a lot of $#!¥.  Must smell delightful.  I wonder how many chickens it takes to produce that much per year.  What did they use to load the spreader?

[Ed Kennell 38,145]

29 minutes ago, EB-80/8inPA said:

What did they use to load the spreader?

Look behind the truck in the first picture.

 

JD w/ FEL

Edited December 28, 2022 by Ed Kennell

[ri702bill 8,316]

Fitting use of a "Green Machine" !!  

[Jeff-C175 7,199]

I always understood that if it's a steaming pile of chicken 5h1t, it ain't done composting yet.

 

 

I guess it will finish once they till it in.

 

 

[953 nut 55,192]

When my uncle bought a side discharge manure spreader my brother wanted to be the first to use it. My uncle forgot to tell him to not to make any right hand turns. When he got to the end of the field he made a tight right turn and he and the tractor both got a liberal coating of fresh chopped cow patties.           That sort of erased all previously accumulated at-a-boys.

[Darb1964 1,042]

13 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

I always understood that if it's a steaming pile of chicken 5h1t, it ain't done composting yet.

 

 

I guess it will finish once they till it in.

 

 

You understand correctly, I would think they will need to add a lot of lime. Chicken S takes more time than other S, guess depends on what they will be growing.

[Ed Kennell 38,145]

I didn't get a picture, but last week my Amish neighbor that is adjacent to this corporate farm, was spreading roadapples (hi Jay) with a small hand loaded spreader pulled by two horses.

Quite a contrast between these two side by side farms in my back yard.

[Ed Kennell 38,145]

23 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

I always understood that if it's a steaming pile of chicken 5h1t, it ain't done composting yet.

 

 

 

I'm not sure they compost this Jeff.       It is clearly ground very fine like sawdust.   I wonder how they store it to prevent combustion.

[Ed Kennell 38,145]

11 minutes ago, Darb1964 said:

depends on what they will be growing.

They have always alternated between an early barley crop and a late soy bean crop   then corn the following year.

2022 was barley/soy bean

2023     corn????

[ebinmaine 67,432]

29 minutes ago, Darb1964 said:

Chicken S

S...

S....

S......

 

 

Soup???

 

 

Chicken Soup....?????

 

 

 

Right?

 

 

[lynnmor 7,305]

The Amish that rents the land behind me has a pipe about 1/4 mile long to bring the juicy S to the top of the hill.  There he loads it into a tank pulled by mules and sprays that pleasant stuff on the fields.  The excess he disposes of along my property forming a nice pond, if he wasn’t a good neighbor in other ways, I would turn his stinky butt in, it is illegal to use the filth in amounts that are not for the good of the crop.

[EB-80/8inPA 1,641]

2 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

JD w/ FEL

I missed that.  It would have been easier to see if it were red!

[Tonytoro416 1,034]

I work in the Ag industry and run a dry fertilizer plant. We deal in commercial fertilizer and a lot of poultry litter. The draw of the manure is it’s cheaper and in a lot of cases better for the ground. Commercial fertilizer reached over a thousand dollars per ton this year. Manure contains living organisms which commercial fertilizer will never have. Normally one of those end dump trailers will have roughly 26 ton. Depending how wet the litter is 

[Ed Kennell 38,145]

16 minutes ago, Tonytoro416 said:

I work in the Ag industry and run a dry fertilizer plant. We deal in commercial fertilizer and a lot of poultry litter. 

Tony, can you elaborate on how the poultry manure is processed?

[Tonytoro416 1,034]

It really isn’t processed. It comes straight from turkey or chicken barns to the field. We do stock pile some at the facility I run but laws limit how much can be stockpiled. 

[Tonytoro416 1,034]

When we stockpile it does continue to compost some.  It will turn to the finest dirt you have ever seen if left long enough 

we have never had any combustion issues even in the heat of the summer.  The litter is so fine it doesn’t store heat as long as you would think 

[Darb1964 1,042]

2 hours ago, lynnmor said:

The Amish that rents the land behind me has a pipe about 1/4 mile long to bring the juicy S to the top of the hill.  There he loads it into a tank pulled by mules and sprays that pleasant stuff on the fields.  The excess he disposes of along my property forming a nice pond, if he wasn’t a good neighbor in other ways, I would turn his stinky butt in, it is illegal to use the filth in amounts that are not for the good of the crop.

I'd be worried about my well if you have a deep drilled well.

[Snoopy11 5,714]

5 hours ago, EB-80/8inPA said:

I wonder how many chickens it takes to produce that much per year

It all came from my house....

 

Don

[Snoopy11 5,714]

4 hours ago, Jeff-C175 said:

steaming pile of chicken 5h1t

Where there is steam... there is stench...

 

 

 

Reminds me of Dave's outhouse.... @davem1111

 

Don

[Ed Kennell 38,145]

9 hours ago, lynnmor said:

The Amish that rents the land behind me has a pipe about 1/4 mile long to bring the juicy S to the top of the hill.

Lynn, Is this from a pond at his cattle or hog operation or is it trucked in? 

[WHX?? 48,815]

I would think with that much chicken s tuff run off would be a problem and the powers that be would come down on them?

 Unless it was tilled in right away? 

[Pullstart 62,837]

We toss out chicken doo in a pile and toss it on the garden or food plots every year.  Much smaller operation than that!  I have thought through, for using horse manure on a food plot.  I imagine deer would eat what a horse would eat.  Any seeds not digested should be something a deer would gobble.  

[lynnmor 7,305]

5 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

Lynn, Is this from a pond at his cattle or hog operation or is it trucked in? 

He has cattle & hogs but it seems to be a much larger quantity than he could generate.  I can't see his buildings or pond from my place so it is impossible to tell if trucks are used.  My grandson has a real problem with the excess material being dumped because it runs off into a spring that feeds his pond destroying the water quality.  His property is about halfway between the dump site behind me and the Amish farm, all downhill. We talked about it on Christmas day and he might take care of the problem. If I start the complaint it would be an opinion, but if water is tested we would have facts.

[Tonytoro416 1,034]

I can only speak for state of Indiana but you have so many hours to work in into the ground once spread.   To be what they call STAGED (piled up until able to spread)it has to be so many feet from the road, houses and waterways 

They also require a trench be dug all the way around the pile to act as a dike for such things as runoff