horse etiquette

[ruffdog]

If it has signs, get an attorney to write a cease and desist letter to the horse place.

 

[Fixastuff]

Slap em with a glove, then challenge them to an jousting contest!

 

[K5lwq]

I do not, Im also confident that they can't give cart blanche permission due to the legal ownership of the road. In other words, if I said to 10 of my buddies it was ok to ride their dirt bikes up and down the road all day.. Its ok. ...I do not have that right.

Interesting. If you do not have the right to give permission to use the roads how can you have the right to deny the use?

 

[two_bit_score]

Interesting. If you do not have the right to give permission to use the roads how can you have the right to deny the use?

It’s doubtful that he, alone, does. However, most likely, a majority of the owners, acting together in sufficient number, would have the right to grant or deny access or use. Probably something in the deed covenants governing it.

 

[Tomtint]

It’s doubtful that he, alone, does. However, most likely, a majority of the owners, acting together in sufficient number, would have the right to grant or deny access or use. Probably something in the deed covenants governing it.

Thats correct

 

[Rockbadchild]

I've been told that horse manure does not make good fertilizer. The vegatative matter is not as digested as cow manure. Possibly because cows chew their cud and horses do not(?).

horse manure makes excellent fertilizer perhaps its true that cow manure is better but if so its because of they differences in their digestive system and now how the grass is chewed but if the horse manure is a few year old its as good as cow manure.

 

[Rockbadchild]

There is a neighbor..Not part of the 5 or 6 that own the road..Who has a stable where they teach people to ride. They use our road to access other trails. Could be 1 horse..could be 10.. depends on the day. My specific issue with it... We have a few vehicles in the 100K mark and horse crap is not a perfume I like to spray up under the wheel wells.

you could ask them to be vigilant about it and try to keep the crap on the side of the road ... I ride horse and on some horse I can't tell when they are pooping so its hard plan it out but we try to ride on the side of the road to not leave crap in the road because people do complain as you can tell. With that being said with all do respect you sound like a very particular person more then average but I get it ... not driving in it would also solve half of your problem.

 

[Rockbadchild]

I wouldn’t use horse manure on a garden w/o a bio-assay test to test for presence of herbicides and certainly composting as mentioned, but something I was unaware of was peoples dogs getting sick from eating road apples due to the presence of Ivermectin in horse poo of treated horses. Fortunately tests indicate 24 days of composting, or longer depending on temps, mostly eliminates traces of Ivermectin in compost: http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/ivermectin.pdf

usually you used older manure for fertilizer so herbicide is no longer a issue. people use dewormer once or twice a year so pretty slim chance for it.

 

[Torvy]

Interesting. If you do not have the right to give permission to use the roads how can you have the right to deny the use?

Possibly more importantly, if the trails are public and access existed prior to the road becoming privately maintained, it is highly unlikely he or they can prevent access via the road. They would likely be in violation of the law themselves if they put in a gate or other obstacle to entry. Unless there is a specific state or local ordinance requiring horse dung to be picked up, a legal remedy may not be forthcoming.

Best solution would be to let it go. Barring that, just have a very genial conversation with the owner or operator of the stable. Don't come across like you have here or you could very well end up dealing with worse things than horse apples.

 

[mikester]

If there's no ordinance being broken,IMO it's like picking one's nose and scratching their behind. Although there's no law forbiding it, the stable is violating rules of accepted behavior and will likly lose respect of neighbors.

That's what we need - more laws. We already have a dog poop ordinance and people are expected to clean up after their pets. Horses are pets too.

I had a neighbor accross the road with an old dog that wanted to poop on my driveway instead of in the thousands of surrounding acres of fields. Talking to the neighbor didn't help anything, in their opinion it would be cruel to put their dog on a leash. Cruel for the owners to pick up after their dog. Fortunately the dog was scared off by the sound of bottle rockets.

I have no place for crazy horse people who feel it's their right to cut farm fences so they can tresspass and trod through fields of winter wheat in early spring. Or walk down our paved road and let their horse dump on my driveway without picking up after them. I value these horse pet owners as much the kids on their mufflerless 2-stroke dirtbikes who do what the horsey people do.