Too much silage

Snowstandards

I know this is going to seem like an absolute joke of a post but I'll continue on anyway.

So I live in Kildare and I'm well used to the odours from the farms around the area, but for the last 3 days an extremely intense smell of silage has literally started to "pollute" the air around here. I know this may seem like myself just not being used to odours, but I have in fact worked on a farm (spreading silage!) and I have a little understanding of what seems right, or in this case, wrong.

The smell is absolutely unbearable. The farm is literally over about 1/3 of a km away but every house in my estate (approx 600 houses) , can't even open windows as it is staining these houses with this horrible smell. People in the are have started to talk about it and everyone around here are getting extremely annoyed about it.

What I'm wondering is if there is a way it can be reported? I obviously don't know what happened with the silage and the farmer but I've lived here for over 20 years and it has never been this intense or extreme. My stomach is absolutely in knots from it and to be honest, I think it's a load of boll*cks that so many people have to put up with this.
Fair enough, I understand that this is how this man makes ends meet, but this is unnaturally strong.

Edit: Slurry not silage

sea12

Snowstandards wrote: »

I know this is going to seem like an absolute joke of a post but I'll continue on anyway.

So I live in Kildare and I'm well used to the odours from the farms around the area, but for the last 3 days an extremely intense smell of silage has literally started to "pollute" the air around here. I know this may seem like myself just not being used to odours, but I have in fact worked on a farm (spreading silage!) and I have a little understanding of what seems right, or in this case, wrong.

The smell is absolutely unbearable. The farm is literally over about 1/3 of a km away but every house in my estate (approx 600 houses) , can't even open windows as it is staining these houses with this horrible smell. People in the are have started to talk about it and everyone around here are getting extremely annoyed about it.

What I'm wondering is if there is a way it can be reported? I obviously don't know what happened with the silage and the farmer but I've lived here for over 20 years and it has never been this intense or extreme. My stomach is absolutely in knots from it and to be honest, I think it's a load of boll*cks that so many people have to put up with this.
Fair enough, I understand that this is how this man makes ends meet, but this is unnaturally strong.

Well firstly its slury not silage. Silage is fermented grass and is feed. and he wouldnt be spreading that.

As regards smell it could be pig slurry which smells more than cattle slurry due to the feed they eat.

It should pass in a day or so and a drop of rain should wash it in. It could be the way the wind is blowing also which mightn't be helping things.

smokey-fitz

Snowstandards wrote: »

I know this may seem like myself just not being used to odours, but I have in fact worked on a farm (spreading silage!) and I have a little understanding of what seems right, or in this case, wrong.

Never herd of spreading silage? Silage is a feed.
its slurry or dung that you are smelling. In this case there is nothing wrong. Farmers can spread slurry or dung between january to november.

It could be the chilling co either? Wouldnt be far from you.

Milked out

sea12 wrote: »

Well firstly its slury not silage. Silage is fermented grass and is feed. and he wouldnt be spreading that.

As regards smell it could be pig slurry which smells more than cattle slurry due to the feed they eat.

It should pass in a day or so and a drop of rain should wash it in. It could be the way the wind is blowing also which mightn't be helping things.

Agree with this, also with 600 houses in the estate if the smell is still there after a few days id be wondering would it be a sewage issue within the estate, wouldn't be in heard off. With slurry you'd want to be in the vicinity of it being spread for the smell to be that strong and with current weather I wouldn't see the smell lasting longer than the day it was spread

sea12

It could be the chilling co either? Wouldnt be far from you.

Good point smokey there is often some smell from Kildare chilling

Snowstandards

Milked out wrote: »

Agree with this, also with 600 houses in the estate if the smell is still there after a few days id be wondering would it be a sewage issue within the estate, wouldn't be in heard off. With slurry you'd want to be in the vicinity of it being spread for the smell to be that strong and with current weather I wouldn't see the smell lasting longer than the day it was spread

Sorry, it's slurry not silage! My bad....

I can't reiterate that it's been around 2 days and that I still expect it to be there tomorrow.


It's 100% not a sewage issue either. I literally can't explain the intensity of this odour and how far it reaches. I actually have a view of the fields from my bedroom and the farmers keeps sheep (and two llamas/alpacas) in one of them, but in the field next to it is where he has spread it. I know you's are seeing possible doubts in my story, but just hypothetically agree with everything in this scenario. What can I do?

Snowstandards

smokey-fitz wrote: »

Never herd of spreading silage? Silage is a feed.
its slurry or dung that you are smelling. In this case there is nothing wrong. Farmers can spread slurry or dung between january to november.

It could be the chilling co either? Wouldnt be far from you.

How often can they spread it or does it even matter?

It was only a couple of weeks back when he done it last and even then it wasn't that bad of a smell. Like I said, I'm well used to it, but this time something has seemed to gone a bit wrong.

Kovu

Snowstandards wrote: »

How often can they spread it or does it even matter?

It was only a couple of weeks back when he done it last and even then it wasn't that bad of a smell. Like I said, I'm well used to it, but this time something has seemed to gone a bit wrong.

It could be duck slurry, that stuff smells like satans asshole. There's not really much you can do, surprised he spread it with the weather we've been having.

Snowstandards

Kovu wrote: »

It could be duck slurry, that stuff smells like satans asshole. There's not really much you can do, surprised he spread it with the weather we've been having.

This is definitely the closest smell I can compare to Satan's asshole!
It's almost like I'm filter feeding on a mix of death and sh*t through my lungs.

Volvoair

Kovu wrote: »

It could be duck slurry, that stuff smells like satans asshole. There's not really much you can do, surprised he spread it with the weather we've been having.

very true,especially when they feed the ducks half rotten silage....the smell would peel paint of a hen house...

Sam Kade

Kovu wrote: »

It could be duck slurry, that stuff smells like satans asshole. There's not really much you can do, surprised he spread it with the weather we've been having.

You know you shouldn't be smelling the devils hole

smokey-fitz

Snowstandards wrote: »

How often can they spread it or does it even matter?

It was only a couple of weeks back when he done it last and even then it wasn't that bad of a smell. Like I said, I'm well used to it, but this time something has seemed to gone a bit wrong.

As often as they want. The farmer probably spread it after both cuts of silage. My neighbour spread a bit the other day, and it stank. It was out of his overground slurry tank or lagoon. Had a strong effluent kinda stink so was probably a mix of old slurry, yard scrappings, silage effluent cooking up in a big metal overground tank, then gets agitated and spread.

The warn humid damp weather the last couple of days along with the bit of wind wasnt going to help much either.

ganmo

Headline will read "Environmental Protection Agency prosecute farmer for using most environmentally friendly fertiliser"

Green farmer

A Neighbour here spreads pig slurry. It sticks, but is gone after the first shower of rain. If your smell lingers after a shower or rain, it may not be slurry or from the farm.

mf240

Have you a bit of **** stuck inside your nose by any chance?

patsy_mccabe

At the end of the day, it's just a load of sh1te.

I know cattle slurry from cattle fed a lot of meal or concentrates can smell a lot like pig slurry. A shower of rain, never too far away in Ireland, should put an end to the smell.

When I read the title of the post first, I thought the OP was going to sell some silage - since he/she had too much.

mf240

Kovu wrote: »

It could be duck slurry, that stuff smells like satans asshole. There's not really much you can do, surprised he spread it with the weather we've been having.

Turkey slurry is even worse. Or it could be concetrated gander droppings.

Muckit

Did ya ever smell the footpath outside Supermacs of a Saturday night/Sunday morning. Definitely smells like sour silage. But I don't think it's silage

tanko

A contractor spreads some kind of waste from the local meat factory around here, there's a brutal stink off it sometimes. It's a lot worse than pig slurry.

Kovu

tanko wrote: »

A contractor spreads some kind of waste from the local meat factory around here, there's a brutal stink off it sometimes. It's a lot worse than pig slurry.

Would it be the stomach contents? As in cud?

ganmo

Kovu wrote: »

Would it be the stomach contents? As in cud?

i would of thought all the acids etc would ruin ground

tanko

Kovu wrote: »

Would it be the stomach contents? As in cud?

I'd say it comes from the effluent treatment plant but I can't be sure.
Have you ever been in the "belly room" of a meat factory?

Kovu

ganmo wrote: »

i would of thought all the acids etc would ruin ground

Apparently it's called paunch manure. Huh, learn something new every day.

Around 4.2 here- http://www.envirocentre.ie/includes/documents/Sustainable%20Practices%20Beef%20Report%20Full%20Report.pdf

Kovu

tanko wrote: »

I'd say it comes from the effluent treatment plant but I can't be sure.
Have you ever been in the "belly room" of a meat factory?

No, where I worked, the belly sludge was put out through chutes into containers outside, if the forklift got an overfull one, the driver would try to slop it over at you if you walked by :pac:

blue5000

OP to most of us on here ordinary cattle slurry aint that bad, I reckon you have something worse to deal with, belly grass, pig slurry or waste from the meat factory or possibly sewage sludge.

Bellview

as its Kildare is it the big dump up the back of Naas that left many the odour on the n7?

bogman_bass

mf240 wrote: »

Turkey slurry is even worse. Or it could be concetrated gander droppings.

God that stuff is foul (or fowl if you will )

Panch18

Isn't it most likely to be effluent from a recent cut of silage

With the rain at the moment it is near impossible to get silage in dry

DirtyDiesels

Maybe start by building a bridge, grow a set and make your way across.Dont slip on the silage though!! Cant believe the title of this thread....I got a bit excited and thought someone was selling cheap silage....LMAO..

DD

Kovu

DirtyDiesels wrote: »

Maybe start by building a bridge, grow a set and make your way across.Dont slip on the silage though!! Cant believe the title of this thread....I got a bit excited and thought someone was selling cheap silage....LMAO..

DD

Don't slip on your ass on your way out. Constructive post? I think not.

FarmerDougal

Back a few years the smell of blood being spread on a hot day was toxic

Mad4simmental

FarmerDougal wrote: »

Back a few years the smell of blood being spread on a hot day was toxic

I just remember dad spreading that at home here in the middle of a hot summer. I remember flys as big as my fist buzzing around and evry fox in the country calling in. It was sum rocket fuel for grass.

DirtyDiesels

Kovu wrote: »

Don't slip on your ass on your way out. Constructive post? I think not.

come off it!!! dont be leading the poor chap on.

djmc

The best way forward is get someone that knows the farmer if he can spread in a field further away from the estate because it bothering a lot of people.
Don't loose the head or treathen him because he is allowed by law to spread it there every day if he wants to.
The council or garda can't stop him so would be best for someone local to just ask.
Most descent farmers would if they could use a different field.
On the other side met a stubborn farmer once who's nabour pissed him off asked me to draw pig slurry to him.
I asked him where he wanted it spead he said
As much as l can around the house next door and the blackest smelliest stuff you have.