Horse Muck

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Should a horse rider be picking up horse poo in the same way a dog owner picks up their dogs? Our local country park is popular for riding, even more so now, and I'm finding I'm constantly having to dodge massive piles of horse poo on all the paths and trails! Whilst it is helping improve my pram driving skills it's also starting to piss me off. AIBU?

YABU

I used to ride a pony who enjoyed a ham sandwich. Little bugger used to steal them from you.

Honestly though, there's no practical way for riders to remove droppings. I also used to ride a massive Cleveland Bay and couldn't get my leg high enough to remount for the ground.

You could almost eat horse poo it is so non toxic.

Maybe the riders could attach a wheelbarrow to the back end to catch it, then they could put it on their roses or sell it.

Should have put 'lighthearted' in my previous post, before I get verbally attacked.

We had a thread on this last year. I think it might have ended up in classics....

We did this ludicrous argument on here a couple of months back. So much for corona lockdown inducing great creativity

I've seen tourist carriages in a city (Philadelphia) each of which had a large bag slung under the horse's tail. I assume that this was a licensing requirement.

I suppose that might be harder to manage on a saddle horse rather than a carriage ... but a quick google tells me such devices exist. No idea if they work.

https://www.workinghorsetack.com/Catch-It-Manure-Bag-Horse-Diaper-p/bb2cb.htm

The obvious solution is that each rider should have a peasant following them, perhaps on a bicycle, employed to pick up their shit.

So you have to get off your horse, hold him, shovel up the poo and put it where? Then get back on again. It’s what you get in the countryside

Yep I will just pop off my horse, pick it up, with the brush and shovel I carry, sling the bag over my shoulder and climb back on. A motorist once suggested I do this on the road. He also said I should be on the road which is pretty tricky as I live on the road. I have however driven back to the road and collected some he had left in the road close to a bus stop

I think we ended up with designs for a horse nappy, a very long handled shovel and a scraper device like a reverse snow plough to scoop it up as you go along

No there is a challenge for a flight animal, spooky

No. It's not unclean. You can pick it up with your hands (I often have) and it's like little balls of compressed grass. Dogs love to eat it too!

Dog poo can contain worms (and bacteria) dangerous to humans - especially children. That's why people have to pick up after dogs.

Horse poo doesn't so it's fine.

You need to let it rot before you put it on the garden.

Is it ok if my cat poos where he likes? He had a good one in NDN's garden this morning.