Cleaning Up After Your Horse

FlyAgaric · #1 (**permalink**) 26-09-2007, 02:45 PM

Hi all.

This morning I woke up to find a huge mountain of horse poo on the road out the front of my house, and I mean this was large it could fertilise an average garden for a month. It is not the first time this has happened either, and probably wont be the last. I live on a housing estate by the way, that is next to the countryside, and horse riders use the estate to cut through to their stately homes. It happens nearly every day somewhere on the estate.

Doesn’t really bother me too much myself, as it soon gets mashed into the road and vanishes, but the debate on dog mess on this forum got me thinking. Dog poo is disgusting and should be cleaned up, but no one ever complains about horse poo, and horse poo is often a hundred times larger than a dog poo, yet it seems more acceptable, and no one ever talks about it. I am sure if I let my dog poo on the horse riders road or drive and then walked of leaving it there, they would be ranting and raving at me.

Maybe when people go out on horses they should have someone tag a long behind them, with a spade and a black sack scooping up the poo as they go?

FA

Wild-Woman · #2 (**permalink**) 26-09-2007, 02:53 PM

Waste from herbivores isn't so unpleasant. It seems to break down faster (no doggy food preservatives) and disintegrate. Wicked stuff for tomatoes too.However, it's a slip hazard on the road if you hit a patch!

FlyAgaric · #3 (**permalink**) 26-09-2007, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

Waste from herbivores isn't so unpleasant. It seems to break down faster (no doggy food preservatives) and disintegrate. Wicked stuff for tomatoes too.However, it's a slip hazard on the road if you hit a patch!

True, but do you still want mount faeces towering in front of your nice abode?

paulchandler6 · #4 (**permalink**) 26-09-2007, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by FlyAgaric

True, but do you still want mount faeces towering in front of your nice abode?

I personally wouldnt have a problem with that, I'd have been out with my shovel and put it on the garden.

Also not all horse riders live in stately homes.

Paul

juliejam · #5 (**permalink**) 26-09-2007, 03:15 PM

As a child I grew up around horses and there were many others within the village
You came out with your bucket and picked up the horse manure and took it
back to the garden …My grandad always said it was the best thing for the roses..

If you break it down its vegetable matter unlike some Dog foods which are brought by the owners..We sold horse manure by the sack load in our money today would have been around a pound ..good value ..Is it the fact that it’s the owners using this route to get to their stately homes that has wound you up …

Julie

Cazzie · #6 (**permalink**) 26-09-2007, 03:21 PM

I'd be out there with my shovel - quick sharp!

Blackbrook Eye · #7 (**permalink**) 26-09-2007, 03:38 PM

Loads of horse riders around my home patch and I have not seen one of them clear up the mess thir horses leave, they will however spend hours clearing it from their own paddocks and grazing fields so it is not that they are too lazy, I suppose it is not practical to stop and clear up when out riding as a bag of 'Hoss muck' tied to the saddle would look rather undignified, not at all the thing to be seen with.
On the subject of using it for your garden, make sure if you do that it is really well rotted, otherwise you will have a crop of weeds you wont believe !!!

paulchandler6 · #8 (**permalink**) 26-09-2007, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Blackbrook Eye

I suppose it is not practical to stop and clear up when out riding as a bag of 'Hoss muck' tied to the saddle would look rather undignified, not at all the thing to be seen with.
On the subject of using it for your garden, make sure if you do that it is really well rotted, otherwise you will have a crop of weeds you wont believe !!!

In most places it would be too dangerous to stop and clear up the horse manure on a road.
Crop of weeds or wild plants/flowers

Seriously though it would go in the compost bin first.

Paul