horse etiquette

Slowpoke Slim · Jan 9, 2022

Well I have to say this has been a rather entertaining thread. I still can't fathom how someone can get horse apples from their "resting place" where they were plopped down in the road, somehow transferred into their house. Now the horse apples are in the house?

First they were just in the road, then they were all over inside and outside of the cars, and finally, now they are all over and inside of the house.

Are these "magic" horse apples?

Better check your house for poltergeists.

K5lwq · Jan 9, 2022

I have a neighbor with a horse that he brings over to my yard to eat some good grass in the spring. I always hold off on the first mowing for them. The poo is not a problem as it is gone after the first mowing. Does not bother me at all but I have always been around animals.

Slowpoke Slim · Jan 9, 2022

K5lwq said:
I have a neighbor with a horse that he brings over to my yard to eat some good grass in the spring. I always hold off on the first mowing for them. The poo is not a problem as it is gone after the first mowing. Does not bother me at all but I have always been around animals.

Have you ever found problems with keeping it out of the house? I can't be the only one who has successfully accomplished this?

I didn't even know this was a thing. "Migrating Poo"... ?

K5lwq · Jan 9, 2022

Slowpoke Slim said:
Have you ever found problems with keeping it out of the house? I can't be the only one who has successfully accomplished this?

I didn't even know this was a thing. "Migrating Poo"... ?

Not so far but I guess I will have to start monitoring the situation. Could be a part of this evolution everyone keeps talking about.

Slowpoke Slim · Jan 9, 2022

K5lwq said:
Not so far but I guess I will have to start monitoring the situation. Could be a part of this evolution everyone keeps talking about.

Oh Lawd,

First it was "murder hornets"...

Then it was Covid....

Now it's Migrating Poo....

lman · Jan 9, 2022

There's a reason they call them roadapples. It's because they are found on the road. I'm still confused, if this location is posted then a letter should be sent to them reminding them of that and if they trespass, call the Police. Around here they share roads in subdivisions and I would never live in one of those or a town. Around here it's very common to see roadapples on county roads and it's easy to steer around them. There are a lot of Amish around here and there's no way to know which horse they came from.
We also have a lot of chuckholes on county roads that the county does nothing about. There's no way to drive the speed limit or your car would fall apart.

lman · Jan 9, 2022

I did happen to see a buggy pulled by a horse that didn't leave apples a couple of days ago. See below.

ddbackhoe · Jan 10, 2022

lman said:
I did happen to see a buggy pulled by a horse that didn't leave apples a couple of days ago. See below.

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LittleBittyBigJohn · Jan 10, 2022

If it's a problem, it's a problem. Put my name down in the come up with a solution group. I live in the "country" too. I still would not want to be driving through poop every day. Even in my old dirty truck. People do have to co-exist so there will probably not be 1 answer that satisfies everyone. If the issue is that you don't want to drive through the poop, I don't think it would be bad to ask them to ride single file on the edges of the roads through the private portion of the road. If you don't want to see it at all, that may be a different story all together.