We use pelleted bedding so there just flat isn't a lot of waste. Most of what goes out of the stalls is used in the yard, around trees and to fill in low spots. We have a still new yard we are working on so it's very useful.
About filling your ditches with manure.......we had an "episode" with a neighbor several years ago. We lived on a rural road with maybe a dozen houses. My husband was using the stall manure & shavings to level our ditches so he could keep them mowed - since the county almost never mowed it. One of the neighbors from nearly a quarter mile down the road asked him to stop, as it was "running down the road and polluting his pond". Now keep in mind that this neighbor and his family have had that pond for many years, and have cattle grazing all around it, but it was our manure that turned his pond green. Nothing to do with cow manure or the hot summer that was producing a bumper crop of algae. Anyway, long and short of the story is that he turned us in to the environmental arm of the county government, had an officer come out and rudely threaten my husband with 5 years in jail if he didn't stop filling the ditch. There were words exchanged LOL, but he did stop. Then he came back and demanded that he remove what he had already put out! Didn't matter where, he could put it right back across the fence as long as it wasn't in a "public waterway". It was rather insane - obnoxious neighbor and an officer throwing his weight around. And the funny part is that he scooped up most of it and gave it to another neighbor who wanted it for his yard...directly uphill from the pond. :bgrin So the moral of the story is, watch where you shovel your manure, someone may be watching!
Jan
