horse etiquette

[Jstpssng]

Years ago I read a book about early horse racing. The jockeys had to be below a certain weight at weigh-in or they couldn't race. At a track down in Mexico there was a huge pile of horse manure which they would bury themselves in to get their weight down.

 

[Doughknob]

Rhinos are a close second (2 elephants). At The Wilds in central Ohio they have free range rhinos who make monster piles as they all go in the same place. I didn’t know what it was at first - looked like a termite mound. I was channeling visions of the dinosaur piles in Jurassic Park!

 

[MossRoad]

For those of you who have and ride horses recreationally.. Do your horses wear ass bags when walking on neighbors roads ? My issue is this..We have a neighbor who has stables where students learn to ride. Their horses regularly walk down our gravel road..and leave piles behind them,,I then either have to try and dodge the piles..Or if not possible..run it over. ..Its aggravating to say the least.

Just say neigh.




Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[JamesHW]

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

 

[Jstpssng]

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

That's something I hadn't considered. I haven't used horse manure in years, but when I did it was well composted.

 

[bdhsfz6]

It's a good thing the OP didn't live 200 years ago when roads were literally "paved" with horse manure.

 

[Captsteve57]

Free fertilizer, don't worry it's biodegradable

 

[TMGT]

Find it funny how horses get a pass for making large piles in the middle of the road, yet if a dog makes a small pile off to the side the owners get ostracized if not picked up immediately.
Seems like quite the double standard to me.

I believe in cleaning up after yourself no matter what the situation. (And as someone who use to work in the auto repair industry in a rural area, its no fun to work on the underside of a vehicles thats driven through piles of any type of poo).


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[CobyRupert]

Horse and cow manure is basically the same stuff you scrape off the bottom of your mower deck. Decomposed grass. In fact, once dehydrated and compacted, I’d bet you have a hard time telling the difference between any of them.

Very different from rotting, decomposing or digested meat.

 

[TMGT]

Horse and cow manure is basically the same stuff you scrape off the bottom of your mower deck. Decomposed grass. In fact, once dehydrated and compacted, I’d bet you have a hard time telling the difference between any of them.

Very different from rotting, decomposing or digested meat.

Along with traces of whatever drugs have been given the horse, and even if it was just straight grass I wouldn't dump piles of it in a road, public or private, without cleaning up after myself. So why is it ok for others to leave a mess in the road just because it came out of a horses rear end?

I would consider it common courtesy to clean up a mess you make, especially if it affects other people.

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[MossRoad]

Along with traces of whatever drugs have been given the horse, and even if it was just straight grass I wouldn't dump piles of it in a road, public or private, without cleaning up after myself. So why is it ok for others to leave a mess in the road just because it came out of a horses rear end?

I would consider it common courtesy to clean up a mess you make, especially if it affects other people.

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I kind of look at it as throwing an apple core out of your car window VS throwing fast food containers. The horse poop, like the apple core, will quickly go back to nature, while the styrofoam/waxed cardboard won't.

 

[K5lwq]

This sure is a crappy thread.

 

[grsthegreat]

OMG. People have too much time on their hands.i think there are so many important problems in the world…..this isnt one of them.

 

[Diggin It]

^^^ Yeahuhuh. This one's about on the bottom of my list.



Or tires.

 

[TMGT]

I kind of look at it as throwing an apple core out of your car window VS throwing fast food containers. The horse poop, like the apple core, will quickly go back to nature, while the styrofoam/waxed cardboard won't.

But are you throwing a pile of apple cores into the middle of a roadway or off to the side? That kinda makes a difference on how it affects other people.

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[ddbackhoe]

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.

Own the road or have a ROW maintenance agreement? Either way, you and the neighbors have condoned this as an acceptable use. Go chat with the neighbor and see what can be done to resolve it.
As for the wheel well complaint, you may want to skip that, doubt the farmer will really care. Guess what we pay for a new truck or tractor.

 

[ponytug]

We have a really dry climate most of the year. Even then a road apple is a hazard for a few days. By then it has been flattened or dried, or scavenged.

Yes them road apple can have ivermectin in them for a few days every 90. So should your dog's poo. Don't eat either one. Ivermectin almost doubled the average lifespan of a typical horse. A truly revolutionary drug for animals subject to parasites. Our eldest horse had a stroke that killed him while happily trotting down a trail a few days short of his 38th birthday, something that wouldn't have been possible without ivermectin. It has a close tie to golf; one might even say it was a stroke of luck that ivermectin was ever found.

We have all sorts of animals pooping around us; raccoons, pigs, deer, coyotes, why the mountains lions are so inconsiderate that they leave piles of bones all over! Most inconsiderate of them, wouldn't you say?

If you own a tractor, I think poop comes with the territory.

All the best,

Peter

 

[TMGT]

Comparing wild animals to humans who are intentionally directing horses where to travel, specifically for recreation, is kind of a weak argument.
Even the Mennonites where my family is from clean up after themselves and use dung catchers on their buggies.

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[Diggin It]

^^^ Yeahuhuh. This one's about on the bottom of my list.



Or tires.

Far higher up on my list is board spamming with a 'sent by my whatever .... ' thingey.

 

[CobyRupert]

Your car may not leave piles of decomposing grass like horses do, but it does leave piles of decomposing meat (like dog ****) with the 100,’s of thousands of road kill they leave on the side of the road.

And although it’s not visibly piled on the side of the road, your truck leaves a lot more waste in everybody’s lungs and the environment.