Some of the places had that "smell". I grew up on a farm, so the smell of poop doesn't bother me either but I can tell when it smells sick. And some did. Some of the pens had 5-6 hens in a small cage and they were debeaked. I don't want hens that are debeaked. I want them to be able to peck at something if they need to.You can tell just by looking. We went last month when it was pretty out and there were some nasty birds. Now I have allot of birds, so Poo does not bother me. But birds stacked on each other with 6+ in a pen the size of a small rabbit cage, I'm not stopping.