HORSE POO

As you know which farm the horses come from, why not give them a call and ask them to come and pick up the poo, if you really object to it so much?

Horses are described as 'Scrupulous herbivores' - I would shovel it up and put it on the garden. I fear being locked up for a few weeks is sending some a little stir crazy!

Yes, when I was young people all dashed out with shovels to get it for their garden

Well Gransnet, what a wimpy lot. How ever did we win any wars, colonise a world or achieve anything: one post muck spreading the next horse manure, just enjoy life’s rich tapestry.

Surprising though it may seem, I have read that horses and cyclists (and, I assume, pedestrians) are the only 'traffic' using the roads 'by right'. Everything else has to be licensed...

I'd suggest that the chance of a random dog eating a random bit of horse dung and getting ivermectin poisoning is so low as to be almost invisible. It's mostly likely to happen to dogs that are around horses a great deal (like, most horse owners seem to have dogs which go everywhere they and the horse goes). And horses aren't continually fed with wormer - they're probably. wormed 2 or three times a year. I've no idea how long the ivermectin remains potent.

And, if you can't see a steaming great pile of horse droppings and avoid standing in it....

If you do manage to tread in some, they don't have the same adhesive quality as dog or cow poo...

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I have always gone out with a pail and a shovel if any horse had been by.

It is the world's best manure, not only for roses but for vegetables as well.

I agree it not funny having to clean muck of shoes or carpets.

I find it a much better idea to watch where I put my feet.

What are you going to do with that manure? Put it on my rhubarb. Oh, we have custard on ours.

There are areas of the country actually (remember going on a ride in Devon and it was all road work) where there are no bridlepaths at all, so that would be a little difficult - maybe they could fly to them like Pegasus? Most of them you still need to get to by road ... then you get ruddy cyclists coming up behind you silently and scaring the bejesus out of the poor horses when they go flying past - motor bikers are far nicer, you can hear them coming and the majority stop for you especially if the horses are a bit scared.

Oh for goodness sake Brunette10. I do hope your post is a wind-up. It’s certainly wound me up!

Some years ago in fields about a mile away a farmer grew those big poppies as a crop for their seeds. A friend asked me for some bags of horse manure from my horse's field. A few weeks later he sent me a message to thank me for all the lovely poppies that had grown. Obviously, being tiny, they had blown on the wind, landed in my paddock and been ingested by my horses ?

Very often riders have to use the roads to get to the bridle paths, and, as the bridle paths are usually separate to one another and not joined up there are usually yet more roads to go on.

Rowyn Thu 16-Apr-20 11:54:44
Or maybe horse riders should stick to the countryside and use bridle paths, not roads ?
I'll run and hide now whilst the flak hits!

Great idea - police horses and Household Cavalry included?

Grannysyb. My friend, who was a dog trainer, taught her dogs to ‘go’ on command, by saying “be clean” when they pooed, as puppies, then rewarding them.
I wonder if it would work with horses? ?

Not acceptable if you live in a suburban location where children frequently play outside their own home but not much you can do if rural other than shovel it up and use on your garden.

When I was a child all the deliveries were by horse and cart
The poo was not so bad but the urine did smell and stained the road

Good typo there; milkman's horse. Might have been a shire but I doubt it!

I can remember my father following the milkman' shires to catch the droppings. His garden was beautiful.

Or maybe horse riders should stick to the countryside and use bridle paths, not roads ?
I'll run and hide now whilst the flak hits!

I imagine most of this has probably been said above, but haven't the energy to read it all!

I suppose you're not keen on the dawn chorus, the church bells or cockerels crowing either?

I assume you live in the countryside?

Horse poo, unlike dog or cat poo is organic, will do you no harm and doesn't smell too unpleasant.

So you are riding along on your 16h horse - are you expected to get off when your horse has a shit? Of course, you would need to be carrying a shovel and a bin bag or two, just exactly how are you going to manage that? Ok maybe both reins in one hand and the shovel in the other - but that could make it unsafe for horse, rider, pedestrians and drivers as you wouldn't be fully in control 'just in case'. Ahh .... and yes, of course you will be popping out to hold said horse whilst the rider is shovelling up the shit .... hope you like horses? Particularly the slightly flighty ones that will do a bit of a dance when the bin liner gets caught in the wind. Then you would also need to be there to help the rider back on, unless of course you are providing a mounting block at the end of your drive? It's not good for the horse's back for the rider to keep getting on without a block.

I think the easy answer is for you to move to a city!

I understand that horse manure containing ivermectin (a treatment for worms) can be toxic if eaten by dogs, some breeds are known to be more seriously affected than others. Dogs do tend to enjoy eating horse manure if they get the opportunity.

Huge difference between dog poo and horse poo. Dogs are carnivores eating meat and horses herbivores so they are only eating grass. So basically you are getting recycled grass and so good for the garden and your roses. Whereas you wouldn't dream of putting dog poo on your garden. Please send horse here for my hard to work clay soil!

They shouldn't be on the pavement. Simple.

54 You MUST NOT take a horse onto a footpath or pavement, and you should not take a horse onto a cycle track. Use a bridleway where possible. Equestrian crossings may be provided for horse riders to cross the road and you should use these where available (see Crossings). You should dismount at level crossings where a ‘horse rider dismount’ sign is displayed.
Laws HA 1835 sect 72, R(S)A 1984, sect 129(5)
www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/rules-about-animals-horse-riders.html

That's all fine, but w hat about horses being ridden on pavements who deposit their mess where people walk? This happens fairly near where I live ,

We had a horse poo on the lane outside our house a couple of months ago. Neighbours urged DH to collect it for the garden so he did... Some time later the rider returned with a bucket and shovel... I asked DH what he had done with the poo... Apparently it was on the rhubarb. We hid behind the curtains...