Living by a chicken farm

[2458n]

I have a friend who worked for a local ag dealership that sold New Holland skid steers . We have a large number of chicken houses in the county. Several farms have over 1 million chickens for egg production.Some others raise and finish turkeys.They sell the chicken manure at a auction 1 time a year and it brings in buyers from several states. So far everything is normal except my friend is loosing his eye sight from some thing caused by the chicken manure. He was exposed to it daily from working on the machines at the dealership, and on service calls at the various farms. Plasmoseis Is what the stuff is called,I believe. The dealer has a brother who has hired my friend to milk cows since he can can not pass his vision test to drive the repair truck.

 

[OutbackL130]

Wow! Sure am glad I checked in here before proceding with that property. The nearby chicken farm is rather large, they have 8 houses; each being 50 ft wide x 500 ft long.

I figured with this being a rural living/farming/tractor community, there would have been more bias towards chicken farms being ok to live by, but I see the overwhelming concensuses is to find another property. I don't want the risk, so I think I will take this advice.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Wow! Sure am glad I checked in here before proceding with that property. The nearby chicken farm is rather large, they have 8 houses; each being 50 ft wide x 500 ft long.

I figured with this being a rural living/farming/tractor community, there would have been more bias towards chicken farms being ok to live by, but I see the overwhelming concensuses is to find another property. I don't want the risk, so I think I will take this advice.

That is a good sense thing to do. Some city dwellers will buy property next to a farm and then demand that the smells, noise, animals having sex be removed or otherwise changed to suit their views. Sometimes the courts will find in favor of the new property owner which is a shame because the new owners knew the farm was there when they bought.

 

[MikeInEburg]

That is a good sense thing to do. Some city dwellers will buy property next to a farm and then demand that the smells, noise, animals having sex be removed or otherwise changed to suit their views. Sometimes the courts will find in favor of the new property owner which is a shame because the new owners knew the farm was there when they bought.

Same with folks who move in next to an airport, then complain about the jet noise.

 

[randy41]

easy access to fertilizer. just saying.

 

[EddieWalker]

Location is everything and if there is something negative affecting the property, that should reflect in the price. If the price is so good that you can live with the smell, then go for it. If it was me, I wouldn't live anywhere near a place that smelled bad or had the potential of having long term issues. It's your life and you have to ask yourself what you are willing to put up with

Eddie

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I would also be concerned about the groundwater. I used to work for the Health Department, and later the Department of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division. Although we did not regulate CAFOs, we did hear a lot of complaints; i.e, odors, flies, groundwater contamination, etc. Pig and cattle operations seemed to garner the most complaints as I recall, but there was a big suit in this state over runoff from chicken operations contaminating the surface water. This might be of some help:

http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/docs/understanding_cafos_nalboh.pdf

 

[mjarrels]

It will snow chicken feathers all year long when the chickens are loaded onto semi-trucks and hauled to processing plants.

mark

 

[oosik]

I worked for the county health dept down here for a couple years and got myself caught right in the middle of an egg farm and local land owners feud. The egg farm was employing - state of the art - control over odor, fly control and vector control. The odor/smell five miles down wind was so strong it would make the silver fillings in your mouth cause the spit to foam up, right in your mouth. You will have absolutely no rights to ask that any action be taken by the chicken farm to alleviate any odors - they were there first and you knew what was what when you bought. Think about how the living conditions will be when the warm summer breezes blow your way from the chicken farm - - think how difficult it will be to sell this property in the future. The choice is yours -- choose wisely.

 

[motownbrowne]

Confined Animal Feeding Operations stink. And they smell really bad too.