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****That odor travels for miles if he’s doing a large area. P U .***

I’ve shoveled chicken mnure, with scoop shovel, later with tractor and front end loader. Never again!
A Manure truck comes by my place every few weeks and we just about choke! They spread the manure many miles away but you can smell it often for 10 miles, and I’m talking STRONG SMELL! We have to close our windows in summer when the smell gets really rank.

It is worse at night when there is a light fog and no wind. The smell just hangs in the air.

And don’t get me started on pig manure which is worse!

When we raised meat chickens on the farm, they were in a separate area from our hens. You butcher them at 3-4 months old.(dressing out to 3 1/2 to 6 pounds in that period of time) They never leave that part of the coop and just eat and poop for 3-4 months.

I would shovel it out after sending them off to be butchered and the ammonia smell would only let me work about 10 minutes and the watering eyes and burning in the nose was horrible...30 chickens in a 10 X 10 room was nasty to clean up.. Pigs smell horrible even if kept clean. I think crap oozes from their pores. Nothing worse (except chicken coop cleaning)...

Chickens have no bladder so their poop is also full of urine and thats the ammonia smell. Yikes. Too strong to use as fertilizer unless it sat over the winter or it would burn the seedling..

Its not that noticable in a regular coop and our chickens were let out every day and just came in the coop to roost at night..