Chicken farms next to a house - impact value?

[ZZGAMAZZ]

Make your eyes water and take your breath away on a hot July day.

About two decades ago, thousand of new homes were built in Chino, CA, on or near farms with cows. I'm guessing it took 5 years at least for the stench to cease.

 

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

A decade or so ago, many of the dairy farms along the (15) in Corona north of the (91) were sold off, with many operators moving more inland. Developers built a bunch of nice 2-story 2500-3200 sf houses in there. I was doing an appraisal on one house just a lot or 2 away from the vacant once-'poopie-pasture' land, and I asked the owner, "Does the smell bother you?" "Smell? What smell?" he said. Oi, my eyes were watering. Developers put in pipes to literally burn off the methane, and it was like that for years. All clear now.

 

[Zoe]

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.

Definitely. I did a house with a woman that had so many cats it was scary on the inspection. The ammonia smell knocked me down when I walked in the house. Everywhere I turned my head, a cat was staring at me. I took many pictures. The lender didn't do the loan.

 

[Zoe]

I think every picture I took in every room had several cats in the picture. They were on top of furniture and everywhere. When I was on the outside taking pictures a next door neighbor said get ready. That is the cat lady. LOL

I will take a wild guess and say there were 50-60 cats in that house.

 

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

Cat urine odor is difficult/impossible to eradicate. A visitor's cat made a deposit on my couch many years ago; I told him to take the cat AND the couch with him. End of problem.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Some of the cats on my farm stink too.

 

[alebrewer]

You guys are describing the entire town of Clayton, TX... only it's not chickens - it's cattle.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Chicken litter here is so expensive, they are trucking it to Kansas and central Oklahoma to spread on wheat fields. Locals can hardly afford the best of it (broiler litter) and have to settle for hen litter or decaked leftovers in the composting sheds. Compost smells less and is good source of organic materials but is short of the N-P-K most farmers want.

 

[Zoe]

Some of the cats on my farm stink too.
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I got them at my house. I run when I see one. LOL
a/k/a polecat in the south.

 

[Zoe]

Polecats (skunks) like hen houses. They love raw eggs.