[robtcorl]

Rabbit pellets do have an odor. My folks had a hobby farm when I was in my teens, including a hutch full of rabbits. The hutch had a screened bottom, and it didn't take long for the pile to mount up below. It was one of my chores to scoop it out and carry the mess away to the compost heap.

Stuff stank something fierce

I said cottontail, wild, rabbits, not pets or those raised in pens for food.

Stifflegged, Brooke is offended by your comment. Her breath does not stink.

[Parallax]

Even cleaning out the room in the barn where we raised chickens for meat never smelled so bad.

Just about 30 years ago I worked as the grower for a commercial mushroom farm on the East end of the state.
The first step is the compost. Just to give you an idea of how much compost we made per crop: it was composted on a concrete slab and turned daily with a large front loader. A rick for one crop was roughly 8'x8'x40'. Compost relies on nitrogen. We used chicken manure as a nitrogen source. We had it delivered from a chicken farm in Minnesota a dumptruck load at a time.
With the possible exceptions of sugar beet refineries and decomp (which, oddly, smell quite similar), nothing smells worse than chicken manure.

[tim60]

Jacques?

You got it.

[robtcorl]

Just about 30 years ago I worked as the grower for a commercial mushroom farm on the East end of the state

I don't remember seeing that on your job resume in an earlier post.
Seems you really do know your sh--tuff. I am now officially impressed!

[Parallax]

I don't remember seeing that on your job resume in an earlier post.
Seems you really do know your sh--tuff. I am now officially impressed!

Yes, I mentioned it. I'll NEVER forget that experience.

I have done a lot of things to earn a living. 14 years in the military, milked cows, grown mushrooms commercially, police officer, owned a bike shop for just shy of 20 years...........

[Parallax]

Seems you really do know your sh--tuff. I am now officially impressed!

Indeed.
In that area of study I have a BS CS, MS, and PhD. Chicken ****, More ****, and, quite literally, Piled Higher and Deeper.

[StiffLegged]

I said cottontail, wild, rabbits, not pets or those raised in pens for food.

Stifflegged, Brooke is offended by your comment. Her breath does not stink.

Then she can open discussions with Skipper, who is keeping downwind. Note the embarrassed lurking position.

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Just about 30 years ago I worked as the grower for a commercial mushroom farm on the East end of the state.
The first step is the compost. Just to give you an idea of how much compost we made per crop: it was composted on a concrete slab and turned daily with a large front loader. A rick for one crop was roughly 8'x8'x40'. Compost relies on nitrogen. We used chicken manure as a nitrogen source. We had it delivered from a chicken farm in Minnesota a dumptruck load at a time.

When we lived in Oregon mom worked at the Shady Oak mushroom plant. Long sheds with no windows and few doors. Mostly women, they wore miner's lamps, the kind with the carbide generator on a belt that leaked and corroded their clothes. The mushrooms are grown in beds of composted manure, stacked about 18" apart, 3 or 4 high.

Nasty job.

Be a good episode for Mike Rowe.

With the possible exceptions of sugar beet refineries and decomp (which, oddly, smell quite similar), nothing smells worse than chicken manure.

Cat poop.

[Parallax]

When we lived in Oregon mom worked at the Shady Oak mushroom plant. Long sheds with no windows and few doors. Mostly women, they wore miner's lamps, the kind with the carbide generator on a belt that leaked and corroded their clothes. The mushrooms are grown in beds of composted manure, stacked about 18" apart, 3 or 4 high.

Nasty job.

Be a good episode for Mike Rowe.





Cat poop.

The variety that we grew, agaricus bisporis, wasn't light sensitive. No flashlights, miner's lamps, etc., required.
The only thing they cared about was temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide levels. Temp and carbon dioxide level requirements varied depending on the stage of growth the crop was in. Humidity was, ideally, about 90% continually.

[RoxnDox]

Worst smell ever? Pig farms in northern climes, first thaw after a long cold frozen spell (at least a couple months solid). Wayyy worse than the chickensh*t or cattle feedlots or compost. Ammonia and acidic enough to peel paint three counties away. After a few days it dissipates to merely a horrid stench.

I want those BACON Easter eggs!

Question for you mOdUL8rs. Can I ‘pollute’ the purity of The Eternal Thread with a few bicycle pics?

[dbs]

Well we have just seen some BACON Easter eggs and talkative dogs ... so......................................


Dave

[robtcorl]

Worst smell ever? Pig farms

I want those BACON Easter eggs!

Makes me go Hmm.

[Parallax]

or cattle feedlots

Okay, anyone who has followed my posts over the years has probably, rightfully, concluded that I am a half bubble off level so..................
I have, more than once in my travels, passed by two of the biggest cattle feedlots in the country.
I have never found that to be an offensive smell. That's not to say it's pleasant, but I don't find it offensive.
Hog operations? That's a different matter.

[Parallax]

Question for you mOdUL8rs. Can I ‘pollute’ the purity of The Eternal Thread with a few bicycle pics?

Go for it!

[Parallax]

The Eternal Thread

I like that. I really like that.