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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