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Chicken farms next to a house - impact value?

Skunks make decent pets once they're scent glands are removed. Had a buddy that raised several over the years.
 
I had a very territorial Weimaraner dog and I was out real early with her one morning. Like barely daylight. One marches across the side yard. That was her yard. She attacks. It hit her right in the face. She had really short hair. She was house dog and it took me a long time to get rid of the odor. I used everything I could and the odor pretty much had to wear off.

She was coughing, foaming at the mouth. It marched within 15 feet of me and looked at me like you want some? I said bye.

When it hit her, she had her mouth right on where that skunk squirted out. Probably 6 inches max. I saw the spray. It probably went down her nose and throat and lungs etc. It got her good.
 
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Zoe said:
he odor pretty much had to wear off.
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They say tomato juice or vinegar works about as well as anything to neutralize the smell, but the internet says to use hydrogen peroxide and baking soda (1 qt. plus a quarter cup of soda and then add some Dawn) - Dawn is a surfactant that will break down the surface tension of the skunk spray so that it mixes with the neutralizers.
 
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Terrel L. Shields said:
They say tomato juice or vinegar works about as well as anything to neutralize the smell, but the internet says to use hydrogen peroxide and baking soda (1 qt. plus a quarter cup of soda and then add some Dawn) - Dawn is a surfactant that will break down the surface tension of the skunk spray so that it mixes with the neutralizers.
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I googled it and tried it all. I have a big shower so it was no problem on the experiments. I want to say it probably took 6 to 8 weeks to wear off her. My deceased grandmother had one get in their hen house and it got her. Not good.

I can see me appraising somebody's house and them saying what cologne are you wearing? LOL

It may have been like 4 weeks to 6 weeks for the dog to lose the smell. It felt like a year.
 
I could tell a story about my uncle and aunt having a skunk spray under the house directly under their walk in closet. They dry-cleaned some and repeatedly washed some but the smell lingered for weeks. I've had skunks get run over in front of the house and the best think I could do was cover the corpse with a bag of lime. After a couple weeks you might need a second bag.
 
I had a dog that I watched get sprayed right in the face. To my horror, she just blinked and went in for a second hosing. Really she probly only wanted to sniff and play with it. She had to live in the garage for two weeks. I think we've gone off topic tho. :P
 
During my travels in various neighborhoods in the countryside, I've identified 4-legged skunk residue. But here in CA, I encounter skunk smell from 2-legged stinkers... pot grows.
 
Sandra Koutsopoulos said:
I grew up on a chicken farm. 1000's of chickens. To this day, I probably have eggs for breakfast only about once a year.
But the smell. Actually, on a smellorama manure scale, I'd put pigs at the top, further down would be cows, then sheep, then chickens. Most chicken farms have their hens inside a good chunk of the time. I wouldn't like to spend time inside a hog barn, but chickens really aren't that bad. Many times you'll find zoning where horses, cows, sheep, llamas, etc all acceptable, but NOT HOGS. Too stinky. So the quality and intensity of the odor may play a part in the adjustment. Our main chicken house was only about 150' from the house, and I don't recall a noxious odor....but then again, one does become acclimated to odors over time.
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Chickens can smell horrible if the property is not well tended. But yest agree that the hogs are the #1 in the smelly parade.
 
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