HORSE POO

I would use it on my garden. Especially my roses. Lucky you!

There are some wild ponies that live nearby. Although there
are acres of land they always seem to poo on the pathways.
Think they are having a laugh or very obedient and walking on designated pathways!

Before using it as a fertiliser, it needs to rot down for a year. The acid in fresh manure could burn the plant.

This made me smile as I remember my mother telling us of her dad fighting a neighbour over a pile of horse manure in the road during the depression. I guess it was free so valuable in those hard days.

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The primary reason that horse riders aren't riding is that if they have an accident they could tie up the time of medical personnel and possibly a hospital bed. They feel it is not a good risk to take.

I don't think any of the many horse people in my area are riding, not even on their own land. It doesn't matter how reliable your horse or pony is, or how experienced a rider you are, accidents happen. The message is don't do it!

I've just spent the afternoon smothering 'Alan Titchmarsh' in love and attention.

I gave him a trim, removed all those pesky competitors trying to get in on his act then mixed him a cocktail of well rotted horse manure and water. After spreading it around his feet I topped it all off with an organic mulch.

He'd better show his gratitude.

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I've just spent the afternoon smothering 'Alan Titchmarsh' in love and attention

merlot

He's exhausted now, poor man!
The cocktail should revive him but you may have to wait until tomorrow to see any results

I stopped riding about 15 years ago, the RA and osteo just began to mean the aches n pains, along with the knowledge that a fall would be much more challenging that it used to be. As MaizeD says, riding is high risk. Horse are flight animals so the risk a monster will spook them never fully goes away. I miss everything about it, occasionally dream of it but the horsey smells- miss them.
I was in London for that Royal Wedding in 1982. One of the everlasting joys is the memory of the crowds cheering everything, even the horses who poohed as they strutted their stuff

The British Horse Society advises horse owners not to ride at the moment because if an ambulance is called it then has to be sanitised which takes it out of use and costs thousands of £s.
We have a DIY livery on our farm and the girls are using the menage and a field we've set aside for them to exercise. I'm surprised riders are out in your area.
All the same, scoop up that valuable poo and if you don't want it offer it to a neighbour with roses in his garden.
pm - I don't think it smells of much at all, nothing like as bad as cat and dog poo (or human come to that).

Thanks ExD

I think some of you have been quite unkind to the OP, no wonder she hasn't come back.

I know this poster, she is a lovely, gentle lady and she doesn't live in the countryside, she lives in a town, as far as I'm aware. .

If I found horse poo in the middle of the road, I would be gathering it up for my garden, as my mother always did. If I found it at the end of my driveway, where it could be inadvertantly stood on, or driven over and trailed up my path, I would be pretty annoyed too. ,

I'm surprised that your liveries are riding at all, ExD. Accidents can happen anywhere. I've had the local Air Ambulance land in my field right next to my arena for a very experienced rider who'd been knocked unconscious in a seemingly innocuous fall. My daughter won't even lunge her horse in case of an accident.. None of our horsey friends and acquaintances are riding.

Iam - I had to give up riding about 5 years ago because of arthritis. I still miss it..

The thing is, Marydoll, horse poo is not adhesive. It's crumbly. It's big and easy to spot. You'd have to be trying really hard to tread in it and trail it anywhere..

I also had to give up due to arthritic knees. I carried on teaching children for a few more years but even that caused problems in the end.

I only had one bad accident resulting in cracked ribs and broken wrist. I was taken to A&E in a friend's car and was asked some very odd questions which I just couldn't fathom.

It turned out the triage nurse had dodgy handwriting and the on call doctor thought I'd fallen off a house!

MaizieD, once riding and horse linked activity has your heart, it doesn't let go does it.

I take your point about not riding at all currently. It's high risk any time. Emergency services and the NHS don't need any more pressure.

Im keeping my dogs on lead unless I'm in a large space with no one else around, so that's probably on lead 98 percent of the time currently. We have more people and dogs around than usual and it isn't worth risking the loss of the necessary social contact. We met a family, two children, two parents, one large, out of control Dalmatian dog. The dog raced up to our two on lead and proceeded to jump all over them. The father shouted endlessly, the dog totally ignored him. Inevitably he came over to grab his dog, invaded my social distance, no apology. then one of his boys set a drone off, which hovered over my two dogs, spooking the young spaniel. We were walking away, the bloody drone and the Dalmatian coming with us.
Now, that was much more irritating and potentially dangerous than a bit of horse pooh.

Sorry that was very grumpy and didn't need saying (I'm obviously still a bit cross. )

Do you think these could police horses, Brunette? It may feel safer for the police to be mounted with some of the rather aggressive people who don't understand Stay at Home.

I don't think they would normally be riding along the pavements.

The hundreds of racing stables must still be still exercising their horses. They would have to. I doubt you would hear of any accidents requiring the Air Ambulance as they are not competing.

Callistemon, I misread your post, as polite horses. ?

As in "Polite Notice: Do Not Park Here"?

Or, in this case "Polite Notice: Horses Do Not Poop Here"

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I will just slink back to the safe haven, that is my classroom.?.
See you tomorrow.

I will try not to overthink again.
Or wind yarn between the desks to stop you glancing over our shoulders to make sure we're working hard.