Pile of s**t left outside my garden

[Lucky08]

So I heard the farmer out the back of the house this morning which is nothing unusual as the garden backs onto open fields. However, later on when I opened the curtains I noticed a huge pile of manure right at the bottom of the garden. We dont have a conventional fence just a wire fence to make the most of the views so the manure is really visible.
Now I'm a city girl so have no idea if this is usual practice, but I have no idea why it's been left at the back of our house when he has a whole field. We dont know the farmer and have never had run ins so as far as I'm aware its not personal but what on earth should I do. Do I leave it and hope ot moves over the weekend or WIBU to go round to the farmer (would send partner as at 36 weeks pregnant everything makes me angry) and ask him to move it and why he chose our house to leave it outside??

Casually wanders in and takes some for my allotment

@notsodimwit 😂😂 take it all, I'll provide the wheel Barrow.

Maybe I should sell it on FB marketplace, or put a sale sign outside my house.

is it a pile of shit that has been moved there purposefully, or a small pile of shit that could have been lovingly deposited by an animal standing by the fence?

I expect that the farmer is clearing out cattle barns or housing and putting it in a heap in the field ready to spread when time permits. You cannot really dictate when or how he stores manure on his own land!

Wait is it even on your land? I can't tell by re-reading

We have farms at the back of us and smells like that although awful are a part of living rurally. You'll get immune to the smell eventually.

No, it is literally right next to our metal fence so on his land. Its a big pile, there is no live stock or anything growing on the field but I just dont understand why outside our garden when he has a whole field.
Like I said I'm a city girl so know nothing about this stuff. I dont mind if its there for a reason.

He'll be planning to spread it.

Count yourself lucky. Around my area they LOVE spreading slurry. Literally the air stinks for weeks on end of shit.
That's country living for you

You live in the country or, at least, close to a farm. Piles of manure literally go with the territory. It will be spread over the field, it will smell for a while and then it will be absorbed into the soil thereby improving it so our food can be grown. The countryside is smelly but preferable by far to the smell of traffic fumes.

In afraid that if you love next to farm land that's what you get

As you can see, not on our actual land but right behind 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is an exceptionally busy time of year for farmers, haymaking, second cut silage, cereal harvest is getting in to full swing. Muckspreading is going to be low on their list of priorities currently. And the smell of muck is infinately preferable to the stench of pollution in towns and cities in my view - at least it is a natural organic smell.

But why not the other side the field??

I do agree though, I prefer it to the noise and pollution of the city. Was very confused when I opened my curtains this morning though to a pile of s**t

Perhaps he is being neighbourly and thought you might like some for your garden. I know I would!

I doubt if he has done it to annoy you, he probably doesn't even notice the smell anymore.

Every single spring, when muck spreading starts, our local forum has a thread started by someone who's recently moved to the area, asking what the godawful smell is.

And every single spring they get the piss ripped out of them by locals, for not realising that one of the reasons we are surrounded by lovely green fields and hills are because the countryside is, quite literally, full of shit.

What you have at the bottom of your garden, OP, is not a pile of shit but part of nature's bounty: a brilliant soil improver and growth promoter that is absolutely free. And yes, if it's on his land, and isn't blocking a public right of way, he has every right to put it there until it has rotted down enough to be used.

I have been known to pop out and pick up horse shit from the road outside my house, when one of the local racehorses is considerate enough to take a dump nearby (I use a trowel and a bucket, not my bare hands - I'm not a complete heathen ). A couple of trowelfuls of horse shit in the compost bin every now and again makes the most fantastic compost.

I'd be "borrowing" a bit for my flowerbeds.

I am sorry, I am being slightly facetious, but this is part of the reality of living in a rural environment, along with combines creating dust and noise, often till very late at night, lanes clogged up by tractors, or, at certain times of year farmers or others shooting woodpigeons by day and lamping rabbits at night because they can be destructive agricultural pests. It is a working environment and farming operations can be noisy, smelly or sometimes disruptive to others. But it is their living and, surely, by producing our food, the most important industry there is - one we cannot live without.

YABU. It’s his field and he can put it where it likes. It’s probably more convenient where he’s left it. Maybe he doesn’t like looking at your trampoline?

You should expect this sort of thing when you move to the countryside. You can’t go in with your “city ways” and try to change things. 🤣

Sorry, but city folk in the countryside can cause no end of hassle.

But why not the other side the field??

Looking at the pic, it looks as though it may be because it's in the lee of a hedge, so won't get blown about as it dries out. Which is why they don't put a muckheap in the middle of a field.

What you have at the bottom of your garden, OP, is not a pile of shit but part of nature's bounty: a brilliant soil improver and growth promoter that is absolutely free. And yes, if it's on his land, and isn't blocking a public right of way, he has every right to put it there until it has rotted down enough to be used

But it is shit and it does smell and given he has an entire field in which to let it rot down it could reasonably be considered a tad inconsiderate or even antisocial to dump it right at the edge of a private garden. In my opinion, as someone who lives in the countryside.

@Beekeeper1, not to mention the rookscarers going off every few minutes in the spring, the knacker men coming to cart off fallen stock, scenes of carnage when some idiot's dog worries sheep, live sex scenes when a ram gets put in with the ewes, game shooting in the autumn/winter etc.

When I first moved down from London, I was a bit freaked out the first time I encountered two men boldly walking down a track carrying shotguns. I had to mentally give myself a slap and remind myself that this wasn't Croydon and they were unlikely to be hellbent on robbing the village post office in broad daylight on a Saturday morning.