When it's full of manure and soaking wet it really is nasty. Good thing smell-o-vision hasn't been invented yet. The stuff really stinks, and if you handle it your hands will smell of it for days, no matter how well you wash them. Fortunately once spread on the garden in thin layers the smell vanishes. I have to use rubber gloves to handle it. The funny part is when I am cleaning the stuff out of the pen, the earthworms just love being in the nasty straw, the ducks love the worms, the ducks are smart enough to make the connection. When I start gathering the straw I am quickly surrounded by a dozen or so over-anxious ducks, who sometimes mistake my fingers for worms. |