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weird farm smells you could never get used to.

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morgan in ar

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There are lots of really good smells in farming (fresh turned earth, cured hay) and lots of obvious bad ones, but what are the strange ones that just turn your stomach? For me it is milk replacer. Every time I have to use it, it seems worse. Thinking of getting all sticky with some hard headed calf or lamb that just refuses to bottle feed correctly. gross.
 
I also like the smell dirt and hay and don't mind the smell of milk replacer. I think the worst was when a cow had a calf born dead and already starting to decompose.
 
The smell that I really don't care for is, when you are milking a fresh cow in the summer , 7-10 days post calving. And she has not lost the placenta yet. Yuk! Old cow can generally get the placenta swinging with her tail , and wrap the whole stinking mess around your neck. Yuk to the power of ten!!
 
I can deal with milk replacer or bedding but the smell of wet moldy feed that got spilled on the ground and not cleaned up just turns my stomach. One reason I hate going to a elevator yard to load feed.

The one thing I learned not to do was when trying to train a new calf to take a bottle. I use to put her neck between my legs so I could hold her head still to force the nipple in her mouth.
Lets just say if you know anything about how calves act and what they do with their head when nursing you can picture what happened next.
I was laid out on the ground in all that a calf pen contains for several minutes and all I could see was stars.
 
Guys, Doctoring... Screw worm infected naval's on baby Calves as a kid! that will gag a Buzzard off a gut wagon!
Later,
John A.
 

I have never minded manure, and the smell of decomposing grain smells to me like vinegar and it takes me back to walking on the train tacks past the grain store as a kid. The smell of rotting flesh however is something else. I don't think that I could ever get used to that, even though it takes me back to when I was kid and some loggers left a dead horse near our house one spring.
 
(quoted from post at 10:21:33 03/09/14) The smell that I really don't care for is, when you are milking a fresh cow in the summer , 7-10 days post calving. And she has not lost the placenta yet. Yuk! Old cow can generally get the placenta swinging with her tail , and wrap the whole stinking mess around your neck. Yuk to the power of ten!!
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And the stench of a rotting cadaver!
 
Milk cow breath (and the milk smell) after the old gal had been dining on wild onions in the spring! Cats wouldn't even drink the milk!
 
Eptam herbicide. If anybody was spraying that stuff within half a mile of me it made me sick.
 
Well, there was the time the skunk family moved in under the wood floor of the barn. Without even being asked, I got my .22, found a good peep hole and a way to shine a flashlight in, and shot about 3 of them. Except they were about 30 feet in, and floor was close enough to the ground that you couldn't wiggle in to get them out. Oh, and they sprayed while in death throes, too.

Dad wasn't as pleased as I hoped he'd be. Took about 3 months before the smell went away.
 
This will sound weird to a lot of people, but the
smell of diesel exhaust turns my stomach. After a
day of plowing or discing I would feel ill. I only
have gassers now !
 
I had the job of cleaning the seperator. Then I remembered Bordens made glue. Think they may have used that to stuff to make glue? It looked bad, don't recall it smelling,

I rank one of the really bad smells coming from a cow when it's bloated and someone stucks it with a special knife to relieve the gas. Now that smells and is gross.
 
Hey Bruce that is a good one. Reminds me about Mom and Dad's chest freezer. After all of us Married and moved out they still kept a freezer in there garage about a 100 yds. from the house. At some point it quit and nobody remembered the last time they had been in there. For a couple of weeks I noticed a smell when passing it on a visit. We finally went in and immediately realized what the problem was. We got some metal straps and welded the lid shut. Then got our FLB and dug a deep hole and wrapped a chain around it and put it in the whole. Some juice got on the chain while going in the hole so we forfeited the chain and buried it all.
Ron
 
Heard the vet chatter on the radio lady vet called in said i
just cleaned a cow and it was bad better light a few candles
 
Thought of another one. I had to "bushhog" a field
of cabbage mostly rotten. The end of the day it was
all over me and Dad laughed and said get in the
back of the truck. Mom made me wash in the back
yard with the hose. I still can't stomach sour
kraut.
Ron
 
Years ago Mother in law was gonna make pickles and put the cukes in a big old crock. It got forgot about and one day while washing up in the basement I sniffed a faint foul odor. Pulled the lid off of that crock and about fainted. By far the worst I ever smelled!
 
I agree, Bruce.....every other smell I could cope with or at least get used to, but that is one smell I do not miss. It is over 8 years now from I milked cows and I can really smell cow manure whereas I used to never smell it and I can still smell that rancid placenta even driving past a dairy farm in the car!
Sam
 
The smell of 2 newly purchased and delivered male hogs (boars) after bring turned in with 25 fresh gilts on a warm summer Iowa afternoon. Hope that doesn't offend anyone! Second was the chicken manure loaded out by hand or wheelbarrow from under the fold up roosts. Would gag you from the ammonia but sure made for healthy weeds in the field. Migtraine
 
Sometimes Dad would buy a parts tractor, etc cheaper than buying a sinlge part. To this day, I still gag on old gear oil! Then there was the at pee that would get into the burlap bags we sometimes stored seed in. (We didn't have silos)
 
When You get that gear oil in your clothes it don't come out. Nothing to do but throw them away.
Ron
 
The smell of a calf that died in the cow and started to rot in
her. There's nothing to compare it too when you have to
reach in and pull it out a nasty slimey piece at a time. It's the
only smell that ever made me cough my cookies.
 
Poultry barns... and liquid poultry manure.

Like cattle and horse barns and while hog barns are a bit pungent, I can handle those too. But poultry smells just make one gag.
 
Uhg! When we butchered chickens, we'd burn the feathers afterwards. Not just a quick singe, but burning a big pile of feathers.
 
eradicane had a odor ,,used to kill Johnson gras s,,any rotten wet grain , dead ripe animal on hot day ,, 35 massey always burned rich with underslung exhaust..
 
We had a guy that would clean cows around here. When done , he would wipe his hands on his pants and take a big chew of snuff.
 
Worst I ever experienced was dead rotting cows. I was hired to do some field work for a guy running a dairy. He would drag dead cows out to a rock pile and let em rot. Was right on the edge of a field I was disking.

Rick
 
Absolute worst not necessarily farm but anywhere
I'm welding is Ronnie to burn. I really do hate
that smell. May be for a feature night we should
compare scars.
Ron
 
I can stomach any dead or rotting smell. Manure doesn't bother me either. The smell of bleach combined with cigarette smoke will gag me BAD!
 
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