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Horse poo update (for those who care)

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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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QOD · 09/03/2014 21:43

Au contraire, we have the cinque ports way and miles and miles of beautiful bridle paths , I actually don't know where they go when they reach the end of my cul de sac and ride down the pedestrian alleyway. There's just more houses.

If they want country walks, we even have a canal with beautiful tarmac pathways AND a separate earth one, with grass banks and all sorts.

Unfortunately I don't see them, I just come home and drive across the shit they leave on the path and road directly outside my house. Last house of the cul de sac. Slightly better than shitting in the alley!
And no, I don't expect them to pick it up necessarily, I just wish they'd go the country or canal routes, perhaps they do sometimes?

lionheart · 09/03/2014 22:11

I like the idea of a horse having a 'signature scent'.

trashcanjunkie · 09/03/2014 22:15

Look, as an occasional rider here's my twopenneth. I have to use a mounting block to get on, so can't get off mid hack to poop pick. It's recognised as valuable stuff - most yards I know sell their poop. It's not made of meat, so doesn't have the same qualities as dog turds.

What about opening up a dialogue with the local stables? We have to go back after we've schooled and pick up shit, so why not see if the same/similar can be arranged?

trashcanjunkie · 09/03/2014 22:16

LaGuardia

littlemisssarcastic · 09/03/2014 22:18

I don't see a problem with horse poo on the road.
However, when riders take their horses down a small walkway which runs alongside the primary school which the children walk down to get to school, I wonder why the horse riders take their horses down there. It is very narrow at about 3 feet across and yes, they leave their signature poos down there.
We spend the school run trying to avoid the horse shit.
Luckily, DD walks but a few children have ridden straight through it on scooters and bikes, and buggies and prams do get it on their wheels.

NigellasDealer · 09/03/2014 22:20

another shit thread, excellent

QOD · 09/03/2014 22:24

Ha ha nigella funny!

RoadKillBunny · 09/03/2014 22:48

I have thought if you a few times since you first posted.
Out riding on the roads Thursday morning and my pony left a signature pile on the road opposite somebody's drive. I did laugh, but only as I was thinking of you and thankful that in my village people have a little more sense.
I thought of you again today as my pony left a rather wet pile in about the same place.
My pony does unfortunately tend leave his mark in the same places as he poos when he is feeling slightly stressed and something about those particular places puts him on edge.
Even if I could manage to hall myself back on again without a mounting block getting off to pick up the poo would put myself, pony and other road users at much greater and unnecessary risk. I can manage my pony much better and handle situations safely while mounted, my control options dwindle massively from the ground. Then is this ever asked question of what you pick it up with, put it in and then how to transport it away with you. I know all this has been questioned already to the tune of a full thread but it blows my mind a bit that there are people who think like you!
As for going back later to pick it up again, for me anyway I really have no idea how I could reasonably do this for most occasions, I am often riding out on 4 or 5 mile rides, I am absolutely not going to be going back to walk the same route with my barrow and poo picking scoop! I don't drive either.

To address the poster who questioned why people ride on roads when there are fields all around. As has already been said, only a tiny proportion of off road routes are either bridle paths or have had permission granted to riders. At the moment a great deal of off road riding is too muddy to ride on, deal muddy ground is just asking for an injury to animal and also does the land no favours for conditions in dryer times.
Then you have the main reason I ride on roads rather then fields, I am working to improve the fitness and condition if my pony. Road work is an important part of that, riding on softer ground is just not the same for these purposes.
I am also working on my pony's overall way of going, he can be stubborn and nappy, the only ways to address these issues is to get out there and do as much as possible. There is no way in hell I would stop doing this because somebody is offended by the occasional pile of muck on the public highway!

I know all this has all ready been said. You have managed to really piss me off and frustrate me though. It's not like it's every other day, week or even month, you said the horses only come past twice a year! The odds are it will be YEARS until you have a repeat performance!

LessMissAbs · 09/03/2014 22:52

Those horse nappy things are really cruel. Some poo is quite wet (sorry to be so graphic but its a fact) and could cause a rash if it comes into contact repeatedly with skin. Its designed to expelled from the rear away from the body of the horse.

And how is the horse supposed to go out of a walk without it all bouncing out of said nappy?

It would have to be a very miserable, unreactive horse that wouldn't be scared by heavy things trapped in a bag, out of sight, at its rear. Horses are prey animals and the natural instinct would be to assume a heavy weight at the rear means its being attacked by a predator.

Terribly cruel for horses, all just so humans can have their sterile environments and mindsets undisturbed.

LessMissAbs · 09/03/2014 22:56

And by the way, I possibly own the only horse that would poo to the OP's standards.

He moves to the side of the path or poos in the darkest, most inaccessible corner of the arena, standing still to do so. He won't move while pooing so possibility of scattering it. In his stable, he poos all in one spot, in a neat pile. He won't walk over horse poo on the path or in the arena and takes care to avoid standing it.

He is German.

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BigRedBall · 09/03/2014 23:00

LesMissAbs, sounds like my toddler. He only poos behind the living room curtain. Then he emerges after a few mins carrying a wonderful scent of eau du poofume.

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Greenrememberedhills · 09/03/2014 23:03

Havnt read all of thread and don't have or want a horse. But horse owners are so LUCKY with a steady pile of poo.

For any part of the garden, not just roses. In my last town I paid for it to be delivered. Sadly there isn't a supply round here , and it is too expensive to buy in by postal/ online delivery in the quantity useful for the average garden.

olidusUrsus · 09/03/2014 23:09

Are you the poo troll? Only you've moved on to toddler shit now.

MajorGrinch · 09/03/2014 23:11

Terribly cruel for horses, all just so humans can have their sterile environments and mindsets undisturbed

Whereas nailing steel to their feet, sitting on their backs, guiding them by pulling their heads via a piece of metal in their mouth and/or poking them with your feet & making them walk on roads full of cars is just tickety boo!!

Terribly cruel for horses, just so humans can sit on their backs when there is absolutely no requirement to do so....

Like horses? Keep 'em in a field & look at them then!!

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BigRedBall · 09/03/2014 23:14

No I'm not a poo troll. I hunt poo trolls.

MajorHrinch good post. What about whipping them during horse racing? That's not cruel at all .

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HootHootTootToot · 09/03/2014 23:31

Horse manure on the road is a hazard for bikers (motor and push)

If my horse pooed around a blind bend I think I would kick it to the side. I couldn't just leave it and risk someone getting injured. It would depend on the road though, if it was a normal countryside road where bikers should be expecting mud etc on the road then I'd leave it.

I know bikers should always expect the unexpected but they have enough to contend with with potholes.

HuntingforBunting · 09/03/2014 23:34

Your toddler poos behind the curtains???

NoodleOodle · 09/03/2014 23:38

Horse riders and trainers in this country are either stupid, selfish, or both. It's dangerous to all concerned for horses that are sensitive to traffic noises to be ridden in traffic, and yet they still do it. Why not keep these sensitive horses out of traffic or teach them to not be so sensitive to normal traffic noises, like they manage perfectly well in other countries, it's lunacy!

And, why not either put the in horse nappies or get down off the horse and shovel the shit out of the way when they poo in inconsiderate places?

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 09/03/2014 23:39

NoodleOodle · 09/03/2014 23:41

And how is the horse supposed to go out of a walk without it all bouncing out of said nappy?

Design better horse nappies. Well, not personally if that's not your bent but, better horse nappies would be designed if there were more demand for them, which there should be.

NoodleOodle · 09/03/2014 23:44

I am often riding out on 4 or 5 mile rides, I am absolutely not going to be going back to walk the same route with my barrow and poo picking scoop!

Because you are too lazy/selfish to?

NoodleOodle · 09/03/2014 23:47

The odds are it will be YEARS until you have a repeat performance!

Unlike the poor sods whose drive you've wilfully left shit outside of for two days in a row now.

muffinino82 · 09/03/2014 23:50

Wow, just wow. I'm going to assume you're a troll because otherwise I'd have to assume you're a twat and that would just be rude

muffinino82 · 09/03/2014 23:57

Whereas nailing steel to their feet

Doesn't hurt them, neither of mine are bothered, feet trimming is usually an essential part of upkeep

sitting on their backs

Again, mine seem to enjoy it and could easily dismount me if they so wished

guiding them by pulling their heads via a piece of metal in their mouth and/or poking them with your feet

I'd like to think it's a little more sophisticated than that but at the bare bone I suppose it is. My piebald cob certainly wasn't that bothered about it whilst he bounded along out hacking today

& making them walk on roads full of cars is just tickety boo!!

Yep it is indeed tickety boo as neither of mine give a hoot about cars. A plastic bag or leaves facing the wrong way, on the other hand = heart attack

BrianTheMole · 10/03/2014 00:07

Because you are too lazy/selfish to?

You can see it as you want. I wouldn't be walking back 4 or 5 miles with a wheelbarrow and a spade to pick up horse shit. Seems to me you only have one choice. Which is to just get over it. Hth.

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