Smells from farm

[DoAhhDiddy]

Call me stupid but we bought a house a few months ago next to a dairy farm and the smell is horrific. I’d say 4 days out of a week it’s bad.

There is cow muck running down the lane into field next to our house, so we have to drive through it to get into our property and end up with stinky car inside and out.

We did lots of research before we bought, spoke with farmer, spoke with neighbour, drove past loads of times during all types of weather (mainly summer) as we had reservations about proximity to farm, but the smell wasn’t prevalent or close to the property. Maybe a little whiff down the Lane but nothing like this.

We expected a bit of a smell now and then, particularly when they are spreading and could put up with say 7 days out of the month it being a bit smelly, but not for the majority of the time.

Can we expect the smell to improve when the cows are put out to pasture in the spring? If we have to then we’ll speak with the farmer to resolve but if that doesn’t help, what constitutes a smell nuisance and who do you report to? I really don’t think I’m going to be able to settle here unless it gets better.

All advice welcome!

Poor little townie. Toddle back inside the m25

brace yourself for the knackerman visiting, his lorry will reek!

Click bait title "The smell of SHITE is ruining our LIVES, you won't BELIEVE where we live"

Bought a house next to a church, bells initially annoyed me but no longer notice them, not sure if this theory works for sense of smell but
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Bonus if you add a Daily Fail sad face photo next to a fresh steaming heap of it

I hate cows. And I hate dairy farms. The stink, the mud, the poo, the noise, the flies, the muddy machinery etc. Ugh.

I live on the edge of the local farms (not near the sheds, near their more distant fields) so even we get the delights of muck spreading every year, the sounds of the cows having their calves separated, the sheep having lambs separated, the mud on the roads.... All necessary evils if you're a meat eater (which I am) so l quietly tolerate, but the muck spreading literally makes me feel sick and gives me migraine.

And this is why I will never live properly rurally, and certainly not next to a dairy farm 😂.

I appreciate the work of farms and farmers, hugely, and am a massive supporter of farmers locally including campaigns about paying them a fair price for milk, butter, eggs, meat etc but I am absolutely not cut out for their lifestyle.

OP is a fool. And it's likely this is a legit thread given the morons I know who are just like them.

Wait until calving season when they separate the mother's from the calves. The mothers will bellow and bellow for days. My advise is to sell up and move, you clearly haven't a clue about rural living

Wait 'til you get a whiff of silage. 😩

This has got to be a joke surely!

don’t speak to the farmer. You’ll look like a twat.

it’s going to smell. It’s a farm.

Oh my aching sides 😂😀🙄

Handy hint OP - when you eventually decide to move, don't buy a house next door to a church...

Is this a wind up?

We can smell the dairy farm on the edge of our village from our house half a mile away, we often hear the mooing at all hours too. Not a chance would I have bought a house that close and I have lived in the country my whole life.

I'm so entertained right now 😊

Like buying a house next door to a school and then moaning about the noise from the children and the parents parking 😂

We have a dairy farm in the village. I noticed the smell at first, but 4 years on I only really notice it when they’re spreading muck. Same for noises from the cows.

Give it time.

Don’t speak to the farmer.

Since when has there been much mention of farming in TA ?

You will stop noticing the smell after a while. Been there, done that, didn't realise until one of my friends asked how I could put up with the smell

I hate cows and the way they smell.....

I'd be out of there, unless you can get some sort
of air purification system installed, worth looking into. I'd want to go and shoot the bastard cows....

It’s posts like these that make me love mumsnet, will be sure to share this with my cow farmer neighbour 😂

Please move back from where you came from. The countryside is not for you and we don’t want you in it. We are sick of townies spouting nonsense about smells, noisy sheep, tractors, mud, church bells, cockerels. Every month another bellend moves in and complains, and then they move out again.

I got woken up at 1am by a feckin huge owl hooting at me through the window, bastard thing

Everyone is going to hand you your arse here. But modern intensive dairy farms do not emit a pleasant country type manure smell. They smell more like industrial effluent from a chemical factory and would be better off on an industrial estate than in the countryside. It will be a bit better in summer unless the animals are permanently housed. The good news is you do actually stop smelling it after a while. The bad news is your guests will not and also if you dry your clothes outside they take on that lovely shit mixed with disinfectant smell. I love the countryside but when I moved to a dairy county I chose to live in a town to avoid it, it’s awful.

Pure gold

I live next to a dairy farm. Some idiot left the field gate open. Who knew how well cows can jump? You’ll get used to the smell.