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Swedish city to use chicken manure to deter crowds ( from attending Walpurgis Night festival)
BBC.com ^ | 4/29/20 | BBC

Posted on 04/29/2020 5:09:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

The Swedish city of Lund is to spread chicken manure in its central park in an effort to deter crowds gathering for a festival.

Tens of thousands of people usually descend on southern city to celebrate Walpurgis Night, which is marked across Scandinavia.

But officials want to keep people away because of the coronavirus outbreak.

There is no lockdown in Sweden, where data show most people have taken to voluntary social distancing.

"Lund could very well become an epicentre for the spread of the coronavirus on the last night in April," the chairman of the local council's environment committee, Gustav Lundblad, told the Sydsvenskan newspaper.

Defending the decision to spread a ton of chicken manure in the park, he said: "We get the opportunity to fertilise the lawns, and at the same time it will stink and so it may not be so nice to sit and drink beer."

The origins of Walpurgis Night date back to pagan celebrations of spring.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: chicken; control; crow; crowd; manure; satanism; sweden; walpurgis; walpurgisnight
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To: rlmorel
the gas tank on the guy’s car came off and he managed not to get the tar beat out of him!

Fast on his feet?

Running Back or should have been?

21 posted on 04/29/2020 5:47:39 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac

I’ve dipped out many a hog manure open pit with a dragline. You learn mighty quick not to splatter it when you dump a bucketful

Nothing was as bad as working near a million chicken egg farm when they filled 5000 gallon truck tankers with liquid chicken Schiff and just opened the valve and drove around the field upwind of me


22 posted on 04/29/2020 5:48:04 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Pontiac

I don’t know, I can’t remember how that story ends (it is secondhand, became town lore for a while!)


23 posted on 04/29/2020 5:48:42 PM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: digger48

Ahhh! The joys of farm living!


24 posted on 04/29/2020 5:50:09 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: digger48

[Chicken Schiff is absolutely the worst smelling farm animal crap there is]


As someone who’s had to put up with neighbors who raised their own chickens *and* driven past hog farms in the Midwest, I can tell you that hog manure is so strong-smelling, you want to breathe through your mouth throughout the range of that odor. But nothing compares to human manure, which is harvested from sewage systems, composted and recycled as fertilizer. Put some of that in the park, and the reek will attract flies while repelling people.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-parks-use-fertilizer-made-from-human-poop-to-keep-grass-healthy/51649/


25 posted on 04/29/2020 5:50:52 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

To be fair, a yardful of chickens is nothing like the Schiff from a million of them on one farm when they clean out their manure pit containments


26 posted on 04/29/2020 5:55:30 PM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

In north Georgia every so often you can be cruising down the road and come across a chicken house being cleaned out and BAM that ammonia will hit you like a nasty wave.


27 posted on 04/29/2020 5:56:08 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: digger48

[To be fair, a yardful of chickens is nothing like the Schiff from a million of them on one farm when they clean out their manure pit containments]


You’re probably right. But the one thing that I’ve noticed is that even a small amount of allegedly composted human manure deposited around flower beds just reeks.


28 posted on 04/29/2020 6:00:48 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I can’t argue that

a local guy the next county over has gotten insanely rich by providing a service for municipalities here and in Iowa to pump the waste from sewage treatment plants and knife it into farmground using those big wheel trucks

They try to keep the smell down, but sometimes it goes in a bit too much at a time and wafts downwind


29 posted on 04/29/2020 6:05:37 PM PDT by digger48
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To: NormsRevenge

Had a friend that took someone’s chicken coop scrapings and spread them on his lawn for fertilizer. 1. Smelled horrible for a week; 2. All kinds of crazy weeds sprouted up soon after. Took him a year to get it back in control.


30 posted on 04/29/2020 6:41:44 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: NormsRevenge

Procol Harum - Repent Walpurgis - 1971

https://youtu.be/wQC7Kk4WOPU


31 posted on 04/29/2020 6:42:00 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Second worst. Pig is worse. Liquid pig litter will do the job maybe too much.
Stink in order from least to worst...

Horse
Cow
human
chicken
pig

But it all stinks.

...................................................

You sure seem to know your shit!


32 posted on 04/29/2020 6:46:03 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Best left handed banjo picker on my entire block)
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To: Graybeard58

I was raised on a farm! Raised pigs and chickens and cows and horses. Soon learned to distinguish what I smelled by the stench of the odor. Never forgot the smell.

Now I live within a few miles of a human sewage treatment plant, and some farmers spread it on their land. It has a sickening “sweet” smell to it.
Raised around it, shoveled it, hauled it, spread it. I know it so well my name is associated with it!

On the other hand I have no problem with dog or cat poo except when I step in it and it squishes between my toes.


33 posted on 04/29/2020 7:00:00 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Pontiac; digger48; NormsRevenge; BenLurkin
Back in the early 60's I used to spread hundreds of pounds of Milorganite (human waste) in the early mornings on the fairways at a golf club near me.

That started to smell pretty good after a little humidity or rain.

34 posted on 04/30/2020 3:28:10 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: NormsRevenge

That would be a shicken chit thing to do!


35 posted on 04/30/2020 10:00:58 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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