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On 10 Aug 1999 17:52:50 GMT, jacker1@umbc.edu (acker james) wrote:

>Dick Ginther (dickg@develcon.com) wrote:
>: Hi,
>: 	I live on a 80 acre acreage and life is good.  However, recently
>: 	a developer is planning on building a 120,000 chicken raising
>: 	operation right next to me (i.e. less than a km away).
>
>: 	This operation would have (4) 60" x 400" barns housing 30K chickens
>: 	each.  He plans to dump the manure out on the open field.

You will have a problem soon, if you don't have one now.  A chicken
farm does not smell good, and the chicken waste products are one part
of it.

Why throw the waste away?  Make a deal with him, dig a series of pits,
have him dump the waste in the pits, and make money selling the
resultant compost.  Some 10 - 12 pits would give you a year round
source and you can at least make money on the smell.

You did not say, but what will he do with the dead chickens?  A farm
that size will find many dead chickens, if thrown on the manure pile
they contribute to the smell and attract dogs.  You might want to buy
a varmint rifle and take some target practice in preparation for moose
season.

I don't know Canadian law, but in the US you could sue for damages if
your property becomes less desirable because of his activities.

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Regards, Harold
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"...totalitarianism obviously has great attraction in our time, 
with its promise to explain, organize, and unify lives that 
often appear to be meaningless and out of control. The messy 
realities of human liberty can always be made to look bad and 
dangerous in comparison with... perfection. "
	---Charles Rubin "The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of 
	Environmentalism" 1998