HORSE POO

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.

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

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

Thanks for the ??? Brunette

Oh, I see Sussexborn has patented them already!

Perhaps someone should invent nappies for horses.

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.

MawB

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

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”

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

Nothing like dog poo, it’s pure vegetable.

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!

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

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 !

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.

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.

Eazybee my dad used to do that when the stores horse delivered the bread etc. Mum and I hid behind the curtain.

When the milk float, drawn by a horse, arrived, the children were out feeding one end sugar lumps and at the other end all the keen gardeners, my mother included, were scooping up the manure for the roses.

I watched a documentary recently about the Metro in the North East. On one particular episode a lady was taking a miniature horse onto the train to get it used to being there as it was going to be a guide horse for a lady in London who travels on the underground. The miniature horse was wearing a sort of nappy slung below its nether regions, so horse nappies do exist!
Horse poo might be good for the garden but it's no fun cleaning it of your shoes, carpets etc! ?

Merlot, my Dad used to put horse manure in a bucket of water, let it sit for a while, and then fill his watering can with it.
It was a rare occurrence where I lived, but sometimes the rag and bone man would come round with his horse and cart. As someone up thread said, it was always a race to collect the poo.

Think this is a wind up, has to be, how do you ask a horse to " hold on" until it gets back to its stable!

harrigran is right that it is best to use horse manure that has been composted but a small amount spread around plants is fine so long as it is not close/touching the stems. It can also be put in a bucket of water and gently watered in.

Any weeds resulting from seeds can be dealt with in the normal way.

Horses regularly use our road. If the muck is nearby, we go out with a shovel and grab it for the garden. Some neighbours even walk quite a way to get it - precious fertilizer and mulch.

Dog poo is disgusting by comparison and should never be left lying around!

I'm very surprised they're riding, too. No-one is is our area. I wouldn't put my grandson on his very quiet pony on the lead rein, even if we weren't social distancing (which we are, of course).

Another plea for please don't put the dung straight onto the garden, it is more likely to kill or burn than feed as it contains a high level of nitrogen. Compost it.

Iam64

If you live rurally Brunette horse poo on the road or the end of the drive is just part of country living.

It’s truly that simple.

It’s like mud on the road from the tractors and stopping to let a herd of flock be moved to a field across the road . It’s like a 4 am rooster call or Norbert the pheasant popping in to feast on newly planted goodies.

It’s life.