Horse manure problems

Are you friendly with any dogs?

My girl and my aunt's dog would polish those piles off between them

Giardiasis is rare in the UK. Other places, not so. But here, it's rare, confined largely to people from overseas or locals who have spent extensive periods elsewhere.

E. coli is more of a worry in the pub, butchers or when there's a sewage pipe burst. Wash hands before eating.

Clostridium are kept in check by having an active immune system and intestinal [HATE autocorrect!] flora. So if you're on strong antibiotics for something else, don't start start mucking out. It's the antibiotics people are given in hospital that allows clostridium to prevail. Soap and water is the best defence.

If it's a village, it seems normal to have it smelling of cowshit and horse. By all rights, it should have a pond area looking scenic and covered in birdcrap as well.

It's not the end of the world to have a few lumps of digested vegetables and a group of equines going down the road instead of a row of pristine off roaders or teenagers on scooters.

You could even come and live in the town centre like me if it's that much of a problem. Traffic, noise and all manner of poo. But not much from horses.

What do you think food grows in and is fertilised by, especially the more expensive organic food? Soil is many things, including a component of decayed animal faeces. Do you realise even non organic food has wild animals roaming in it, seeing and pooping as it goes? More of a concern might be the cleanliness of the hands of those harvesting it!


Our horses go on the roads (we have to, no direct access to bridle ways, if the horse riders are riding down your road on an estate there will be a reason, it might be safer for younger riders for example than the bridle way provision or it might be to help train and instil road safe behaviour in young horses. Most people do not ride for the pleasure of riding down residential streets, so there will be a reason.

It's a shame there are no keen gardeners snapping this up....we don't sell ours but we do give it away, but more importantly use it for our own garden.

Edit...btw,...who here goes to the sewage treatment plant to make sure their own effluent is suitably disposed of.....?

Op, if you can't drive round a pile of horse pooh I don't think you should be on a bike at all!

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

it just maybe the rout they take now is because the council have a prohabition on the old rout.

its common for the council to switch these around due to complaints or excess fouling on local park, scenic walk paths some are even changed due to high traffic volume making it impossible for riders to take the rout.

if its outside your house, then call the council to have the road washed by the little road sweaps its not that difficult.

also you could pay a POLITE visit to the local riding schools and ask them POLITELY if they can alternate the routs they take so your street isnt foul'd on a weekly basis.

other than that stick the dung on your vegi patch, flour bed, carefull to store as it can be volitile if its stored with ventilation. texas dung plant anyone!.

Storing, stacking and rotting dung is a lot different to ammonium nitrate handling!!

Farms all over this country have slurry solutions which store a lot of during, and stables and riding schools have trailers or dry muck heaps. These can rot away, even smoulder, with Eco impact, but no danger of the like of an inorganic fertiliser plant!