@Bob: IM S6 posted:And contrary to what Stan says about egg farms - really, what is an egg farm? Do they plant eggs like potatoes, and they multiply underground? - Chicken farms I have heard of.
Just be glad the hotel was not next to a pig farm.
People would have checked in on Thursday, and checked out on Thursday - and not the next Thursday.
It would be a same day exodus of screaming speedster owners...
"Chicken farm" connotes roaster (meat) chickens. "Egg farms" have the same 4 hens in one sq/ft cages for two years, 2 to 3 layers high, crapping on the the other birds in the cage, or on the ones below them. Chicken manure smells like sewage that has been soaked in ammonia.
I lived across the cornfield from one while growing up. The egg farm was about a mile to the NE, which was not the direction of prevailing winds. However, if the wind was blowing just right-- WOW. My good friend lived on that farm, and when we would go over there, we'd gather eggs. I high-school, we'd load pullets (take them off a truck and put them in their cages) or hens being cycled out when they'd reached the end of their productivity. It was good money and nasty, depressing, horribly hard work.
Laying chickens in cages have to be "de-beaked" before being put in with other chickens or they will peck one another to death in short order. As it is, when changed out for pullets, the old layers have maybe 50% of their feathers left and are scrawny and mean. They will lay an egg a day for the entire time they are in confinement. A typical egg farm has at least 20,000 birds laying. It's depressing in the extreme. Cage-free eggs are one of those things that I do because I know what's involved when they're not.
An egg farm in a midwest summer smells worse than a hog confinement.