HORSE POO

As regards going out riding, surely horses need to be exercised the same as dogs if they are not in field.
The police exercise their horses in the green spaces near our area of Central Manchester so they ride past our house on the way I enjoy seeing them.

That's true Iam64 life in the raw in the country. We have just seen a neighbour walking her horse and donkey through the village for exercise, lovely.

merlot loved your story made me smile
We have a bit of horse poo around here (before the lockdown) dont tend to tread in it tends to be on the large size so easily seen !

Our friends are riding on the fields rather than the roads.
The police are using their mounted divisions to help with policing social distancing, very effectively

I used to get sent out into the street to collect any horse dung which was deposited, also up the fields to collect sheeps' purls (best thing for leeks, according to my dad). Having been around horses all my life, it never bothered me - and my daughter won the trophy for the tallest sunflower at our local horticultural show one year and put her success down to her sunflower being fed regularly with pure Exmoor pony poo!

You should be pleased. Get your shovel out and use it on your roses.

Nothing like dog poo, it’s pure vegetable.

Now I know that they have to poo but honestly in the middle of the street, at the end of a driveway leading to your home, I don't think it is fair. In our street last week there was a huge amount left in the middle of the road but also at the end of two driveways leading into neighbours' driveways. I don't think this is acceptable

This has to be a wind-up, no?
Pooing in the middle of the street -unless they are walking somewhere else, where would you expect them to lift their tails?
If you look very carefully at e.g. the Mall after any procession involving the Royal Family, or Trooping the Colour, you will notice that not even Royal horses are potty trained.
Likewise police horses on the streets or around football ground car parks.
Perhaps we need a campaign “Let’s toilet train horses”

Years ago on holiday in Prague, despite so many horses and carriages travelling round the cobbled streets I couldn’t help notice there wasn’t any horse poo lying anywhere. Then I realised why when I took a carriage ride. The driver had a box with a long handle, right on cue when the horse lifted its tail he reached forward and caught the poo and closed the lid again

MawB

Where is this?

I will send DH to scoop it up.
Actually, we have a friend who lets us go and collect her well matured horse poo for nothing and she is very appreciative of veg and fruit in exchange.

Perhaps someone should invent nappies for horses.

Oh, I see Sussexborn has patented them already!

Thanks for the ??? Brunette

Callistemon, sadly, I don't think Brunette was joking. (Could be wrong)

MawB and Callistemon, I'm with phoenix, I don't think it's a wind up either

We had to buy some manure because of all the rain over the winter and we could 'nt go to dig out our friend's manure.
Well, not hers, of course, from her horses!

It has been there for years and is lovely soil now.

Couldn't
Oh dear

Horse nappies aren't new; from October 2006:

Blackpool horses to get nappies
Horse drawn carriages in Blackpool are being fitted with nappies to stop horse droppings littering the promenade.
Landau drivers in the seaside resort had volunteered to follow carriages with a bucket a shovel.
But the landaus, which are a common sight along the promenade, are to be fitted with a rubber and plastic nappy that will collect the droppings.
The first will be tried out on Thursday with other landaus joining the trial in coming months.

Iam64 but complaining horses poo in the street?
It’s like complaining that birds sing or cocks crow or churches have bells which they ring before services!

Like others, I don't know what a rider can do about it, unless he/she carries a spade and a bucket slung behind the saddle, and dismounts to collect it and tie the bucket back on again, and you have said that you don't expect them to do that. The horse doesn't even stop and squat, it just lifts its tail and lets it drop - the rider can't even see what is going on. If they dropped some outside my house, I'd be out there to shovel it up for the compost heap, but people don't ride along my suburban street.

Oh my goodness.If this is the only thing you have to worry about lucky you!I'm a dog owner and always pick up and hate other dog owners that do.But horse poo is in the road,biodegrades or washes away in the rain and is easy to see and avoid.Now don't get me started on fly tipping.Apparently it's rocketing with tips closed.

Meant don't pick up dog poo obviously!

Well I’m a bit miffed about bird poo on the orangery roof ?

NanaandGrampy, I saw a field mouse in my garden today, shocking isn’t it. I suspect it was after the tiny bits of bird food the ungrateful blue tits dropped

How dare birds leave their droppings everywhere! It's not fair! Why should they get away with it? They should wear nappies.