Stinky Run…

[lolita117]

So I have a super stinky run… Any suggestions?

I went from having a flock of around 30+ to about 70+ with 2 geese. And the smell is a little more than I expected. (I didn’t even have a smell with the smaller flock, so I didn’t think anything much would change

) They all have enough room to roam within the coop and run whenever confined, and then I try to let them out every afternoon for a few hours, and about 2-3 days a week they get let out early in the day, sometimes early morning to roam all day. But my run smells unbelievable

. Kind of like an industrial chicken house. Right now it isn’t wet and when it’s been raining a lot, sometimes it worse, sometimes it not. But it is bone dry right now and it’s stout. I always thought lime was a neutralizer of not only soil but of odor. Is this correct?

I need some help on this subject please. Sometimes when the wind is blowing just right, I can smell it a good 100 yards away. I don’t like people that come to my house smelling that.

~When I say let out to roam, I mean in my 5 acre yard surrounded by a field. So free-range.

 

[Brookliner]

Did you have geese before. I have geese and the amount of poop that they generate is amazing. I rake their poop up daily. My chicken run has no oder. I bet it is your geese and their wet poop. If it smells like ammonia you can use PMZ. I also sprinkle DE around in my goose pen.

 

[lolita117]

Did you have geese before. I have geese and the amount of poop that they generate is amazing. I rake their poop up daily. My chicken run has no oder. I bet it is your geese and their wet poop. If it smells like ammonia you can use PMZ. I also sprinkle DE around in my goose pen.

No I didn't have geese before. I got the geese when I expanded my flock. It does smell like ammonia. I know what that PMZ stuff is, I've seen it before at TSC. I'll pick up a bag next time I go. I use DE inside. But I thought that once it got wet it doesn't work anymore. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Erin~TheChickenLover]

It sounds to me like your ground is overstocked. If it is at all possible I would recommend building another run so that you can rotate the birds from one run to another when needed. That should take some stress off the soil and make things a lot less stinky.

 

[lolita117]

It sounds to me like your ground is overstocked. If it is at all possible I would recommend building another run so that you can rotate the birds from one run to another when needed. That should take some stress off the soil and make things a lot less stinky.

That won't be feasible. Can't put anymore money into the coop/run/chickens. They have the recommended amount of square footage per bird. I'm going to give the PMZ stuff a try.

 

[Erin~TheChickenLover]

That won't be feasible. Can't put anymore money into the coop/run/chickens. They have the recommended amount of square footage per bird. I'm going to give the PMZ stuff a try.

That is understandable. Good luck with the PMZ. I've never tried it since I would have to get it shipped here, but I've heard it's some good stuff.

 

[lolita117]

That is understandable. Good luck with the PMZ. I've never tried it since I would have to get it shipped here, but I've heard it's some good stuff.

Thanks. Hopefully it will work. DH will ring my neck if I have to make my run bigger.

 

[jpcode]

I have heard rock phosphate works, but I have never used it.

 

[Danielmc]

Just out of curiosity do you have a photo of your set up?

 

[lolita117]

Just out of curiosity do you have a photo of your set up?

Both of these pictures were took last summer. The run is attached to the right side of the coop. Like I have the pictures side by side . There isn't any grass in the coop anymore.