Odor, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide concentrations and emission rates were measured for finishing pigs with different waste removal strategies. Strategies included daily flush and a static pit with 7-, 14-, and 42-day storage times with and without pit recharge. Tests were conducted in two environmental rooms using three successive groups of 25 pigs in each room. Pigs were fed standard corn-soybean diets. Ammonia and hydrogen sulfide concentrations of several locations were automatically measured 15 to 24 times daily at each room. Odor samples were collected several times during the experiment and evaluated for odor concentration, intensity and hedonic tone by eight trained sensory panelists. The panelists’ threshold detection performances were verified with a reference odorant. Mean odor emission rates were 19, 33, and 29 OUE/s-AU (OUE = European odor unit equivalent to 123 ıg n-butanol per m3, AU = 500 kg animal weight) for 1-day (daily flush), 7-day, and 14-day manure storage times without pit recharge, respectively, and 2.6 and 25 OUE/s-AU for 7- and 42-day manure storage times with pit recharge, respectively. Mean ammonia emission rates were 14, 23, and 22 g/d-AU for 1-, 7- and 14-day manure storage times without pit recharge and 5.7, 6.8 and 7.2 g/d-AU for 7-, 14-, and 42-day manure storage times with pit recharge, respectively. Mean hydrogen sulfide emission rates were 0.11, 0.23 and 0.37 g/d-AU for 1-, 7- and 14- day manure storage times without pit recharge and 0.08, 0.19 and 0.91 g/d-AU for 7-
, 14-, and 42-day manure storage times with pit recharge, respectively. The hydrogen sulfide emission rate for the 1-day storage was 0.41g/d-AU as compared to 0.11 g/d-AU when including the burst release during flushing. Sudden releases during flushing are not expected to influence mean emission rates in typical finishing buildings as much as they did in this small facility. The highest mean emission rates are equivalent to 44.1 and 1,146 kg/yr (44 and 1,146 lb/yr) for H2S and NH3 from a 1,000-head finishing house, respectively. Results showed that lower emission rates will result if pit recharge is used with static pits, when pits are emptied more frequently, and when flushing is used instead of static pits.