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Originally Posted by craigster59

That was a chicken poop spray they used on the fields for fertilization. That's some prime farmland there, or once was. They seem to be paving over a lot of it.

The poop probably came from Egg City in Moorpark. Now, anyone who has ever driven over Grimes Canyon back then could tell you, that was a "stank".

In 1961, Julius Goldman founded Egg City, which was a massive chicken farm north of Moorpark, with many chicken coops spread over acres of concrete with millions of chickens in them. The main building had a giant chicken statue on the top of it. Local residents were somewhat irked by the farm, when the smell of it wafted to Moorpark on windy days. The business suffered a setback in 1972, when more than 3 million chickens were slaughtered because of the threat of Newcastle disease. The farm finally closed in 1996. In early December 2006, a wildfire destroyed the dilapidated remains of Egg City.

A joke I still remember that I heard on KMET is that Moorpark spelled backwards is Kraproom. How appropriate. Intentional perhaps?