To absolutely hate horse manure on the road.

[KittyFane]

I practically followed the manure home this evening. Dotted along the country roads and into the housing estate. (?)
If you ride, do you go back and shovel it up afterwards or leave it? They leave it here. :(

Being quite lazy but do I, if I scoop up the fresh shite, have to mature it in any way? Garden looks like it needs a tonic and this could be just the right thing.

I hate filthy beaches. Shall I start a thread? (!)

Or set up another composty box? May have to read the 'Horse and Hound' threads...

We have varying sizes of piles of horse shit in various stages of decomposition outside our house. End house with alley at end into new estate. Same horse every time just takes a crap.

Oh PLEASE tell me. There is loads of fresh horse shite around here, what do I do???

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ESP - you can sling it straight on your garden but it might burn the plants. Better to chuck it in the compost bin (if you have one) or on a spare bit of soil for a few weeks.

I'm intrigued now by the issues posed by vegetarian dog shit. As far as I know dogs and cats are able to spread diseases through their faeces that pose a health hazard to humans - whereas horses can't. But I don't know whether a vegetarian diet would render a dog's turd as safe as a horse's.

Thank you Tangle. Every day this week, before collecting the children, I have been blackberry picking. I think I may be collecting something else tomorrow...

i dont mind horse manure.... dog shit is another matter completey!

Make sure you don't collect too much though Electric!!!
Manure generates heat as it decomposes, and it is possible for manure to ignite spontaneously should it be stored in a massive pile. Once such a large pile of manure is burning, it will foul the air over a very large area and require considerable effort to extinguish. Large feedlots must therefore take care to ensure that piles of fresh manure (faeces) do not get excessively large.

What a good idea missbehiving :o !

Will make sure to only collect small amounts.

Imagines neighbours writing an AIBU: My neighbour has a huge pile of smoldering horse manure. She also has bonfires. AIBU to give her a slap?

tangle I think it is still dangerous

Am laughing at the thought of a large pile of burning poo. Sorry

Horse dung is a very efficient fuel for burning apparently

The bonfires are probably down to the manure igniting spontaneously.
I told you it was dangerous.

Xpost missbehiving :o

I'm going to go and live in the country, it so lovely and fresh. :)

Sooooooo, could you make one of those fire brick whatsits with the manure? Possibly using a massive amount of essential oil to mix up the smells?

I must thank you for this thread as it has opened up a whole new world re: shite and the uses of.

tangle dog poo BTW

OK. As a professional horse shit wrangler/equine effluence technician/muck buddy, I can tell you...
1/You shouldnt put it straight onto the garden. If it is less than 3 months old, the rotting down process takes more from the ground than it puts in.
2/It is quite harmless. Horses are veggie. It is just grass or cereal. 3/Depending on the state of the horses digestive system, it can be still recognisable as grass after it is passed. Think of it as compost with a head start!
4/Muck does indeed get very hot as it rots down. People have been known to run their hot water pipes through their muck heaps, to power their central heating. It would however be VERY difficult for a muck heap to catch light, as the decomposing muck is actually quite moist.
5/It can be burned, tribes like those who live on the Mongolian Steppes dry it and use it as fuel.
6/ Barbara Woodhouse used to recommend feeding horse poo to your dog if it got into the habit of eating faeces. (quite common apparently!)
They apparently do it because they are seeking extra nutrients, horse poo being fairly un nasty, is better for them than dog or other carnivore poo.
7/ in the field, each pile of poo has its own dung beetle. They are very cute. about the size of a 20p piece, and a lovely irridescent blue black.
HTH

Soggyold!! Now you win the medal for converting me from manure hater to lover not mind(er)!!
I actually found that v interesting!! :o
Also, glad that the chances of it setting fire are slim! (Wikipedia got me worried for a while! )

:o @ electric and her essential oil soaked compost heap!

I'm glad I've made a convert! It may be shit to you, you know, but to me it's bread and butter!

Saggy you are plagiarising Spike Milligan's shithouse orderly from one of his books of "war memoirs" - whether you know it or not. Don't mind in the least if it encourages people to get them and read them because they are gut-bustingly funny.