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Horse poo update (for those who care)

90 replies

BigRedBall · 09/03/2014 19:02

Today I was in my garden admiring the lovely weather and I got a waft of stink coming over into my nostrils. I walked around the patio trying to smell where it was coming from and it led me to the neighbours fence.

Went running upstairs into my bedroom and looked out the window and there it was. The big pile of shit sitting on their grass in the sunlight. So they took.

They don't have roses so God knows what they plan to do with it.

Anyway, I'm not suprised it wasn't the horse rider who picked it up. She had no intention to either, the cheeky cow.

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BigRedBall · 09/03/2014 19:55

I'm pretty sure it's the same. It was raining on and off on Thursday and Friday so it can't be that dried out and it was quite warm and breezy today. I don't really feel comfortable asking them about it.

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Adeleh · 09/03/2014 20:02

I think we can all trust you, OP, to recognise that particular specimen.

everlong · 09/03/2014 20:03

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Quinteszilla · 09/03/2014 20:05

Yep, I also though of you when I passed some stables the other day. The whiff!

girlynut · 09/03/2014 20:05

Didn't we do this already? [yawn]

BrianTheMole · 09/03/2014 20:05

You seem a little obsessed. Its just horse shit, no big deal.

saintlyjimjams · 09/03/2014 20:06

There's no way you could smell one 3 day old horse poo. You're yanking our chain OP.

Quinteszilla · 09/03/2014 20:06

I should add, I will never forget the summer my dad put horse manure around all the 12 red currant bushes in the orchard. Not because of the smell, but because we had redcurrants the size of tomatoes! Grin

They were delicious, with freshly made custard.

PerpendicularVince · 09/03/2014 20:07

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saintlyjimjams · 09/03/2014 20:07

I'd like to try & carry a shovel in 3 parts while riding a horse. Oh and a bin bag.

Timetofly · 09/03/2014 20:11

As a horse rider I'll say that they shouldn't be riding on the pavement, so definitely shouldn't leave shit there.
Oh, how I fucking wish we could just ride in the fields instead of the roads. My and my horse wouldn't set hoof on the road if I had a choice. Got chased by a farmer in a Landrover waving a shotgun once when I misunderstood where I was allowed to ride and where not. Sad

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BigRedBall · 09/03/2014 20:15

I'm not obsessed. Just providing an update Grin. I'll just leave it at that then :)

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Oldraver · 09/03/2014 20:20

I cant stand horse shit no matter how many times the horsey lot try to convince people its harmless and smells lovely it doesn't, you stink. Its frequently left on the roads round where we live and its NEVER gathered in for the mythical roses, it just splatters and spreads in the road and I have to dodge it or it gets on my cycle wheels

I especially dont like having to dodge clods of shit while trying to get a trolley and various clods dotted around the supermarket because selfish twats think its perfectly acceptable to walk round the supermarket in their riding boots. Its inconsiderate and you can be smelt from an aisle away

saintlyjimjams · 09/03/2014 20:37

Now you're just being silly. People don't usually walk through horse poo - there's no reason why they would be dropping piles of poo everywhere. :rolls eyes:

Joysmum · 09/03/2014 21:07

OP I would love for you to explain how horse riders should get off their horse on a road, hold and control the horse, magically find a shovel and bucket, get back on horse and carry it away. Smile

Then, I would love for you to provide suitable snappy retorts explaining why they are holding up the traffic and being a danger to themselves and others to the fuckwits who think it ok to shout at horse riders.

Thank you

Mrsmorton · 09/03/2014 21:09

I think you're lying. There's no way it would still smell, so yes. Liar.

LaGuardia · 09/03/2014 21:24

Horses are only good for lasagne.

ManateeEquineOHara · 09/03/2014 21:25

Horses were on the roads long before cars. If you have a problem with horses holding up cars fuck off to the midst of a city please.

And horse shit isn't carcinogenic or a severe pollutant - unlike cars.

ManateeEquineOHara · 09/03/2014 21:29

Oh and in reply to the 'there are plenty of fields but they come down into the village':
1 - horses can be ridden in roads, live with it.

  1. V. Unlikely these fields can be ridden in. Bridle paths are massively lacking in many rural areas. Riders would almost always prefer to ride off road if that is an option.
carabos · 09/03/2014 21:30
  1. One occasionally has to ride onto the pavement when an arsehole motorist who doesn't know the Highway Code forces one off the road into a hedge.
  2. One doesn't often step into a pile of horseshit and trail it through the supermarket . As has been pointed out, horse crotts are extremely large and therefore easy to avoid.
  3. Horseshit is decomposing vegetable matter. That's what it is, that's what it smells like. It dries almost to dust and seeds in a very short space of time.
5OBalesofHay · 09/03/2014 21:33

Each to their own. My horses are lovely (and I love the smell of their noses). I keep them in the country. You don't Like horses in roads, don't go to the country. We try to be considerate road users.

TattyDevine · 09/03/2014 21:36

Get a sample, add water or oil, mix in a bottle and spray it all over yourself.

After a while you wont smell it because your brain gets used to it.

I can't smell my own signature scent perfume anymore because my brain has got used to it yet various people compliment me on it.

So do that. But don't expect compliments, necessarily...

5OBalesofHay · 09/03/2014 21:37

Oh, nasty, la Guardia. Maybe you would be nicer with a horse in your life.

tanukiton · 09/03/2014 21:38

There is a private track with a footpath running next to it next to my my mums. The horses aren't a problem but the cars are. Oh and any horse poo is gratefully received. I have just spread composted cow poo and chicken poo all over my veggie plot. Chicken poo that sinks!

Topseyt · 09/03/2014 21:40

You do seem to have rather a horse shit fetish. You really must have nothing better to do these days than start yet another thread about it.

Give me horse shit over dog shit any day (and I have two dogs, but no horses). It is sooo much better, and at even just a couple of days old, it doesn't smell at all.