what to do woth all the poo ?

[pam]

The stuff keeps adding and adding and adding.... especially if you are cleaning stalls carefully daily. We used to burn our pile, but we had a friendly knock on our door from the sanitation department - saying that this was a no-no and that she was watching us. We use sawdust, and the smell only smelled like a fireplace but we must have had a neighbor who needed a hobby and too much free time on her hands.....

We now use a wagon and spread in our field in back. We also have used a Bobcat to help spread it efficiently. I asked for a manure spreader for my 30th wedding anniversary, but to date, have not received it ....

We have 9 minis and one full size horse. All but 2 of the broodmares are stalled and must have their stalls picked daily. It is a lot of work, but we have been able to keep up with the sh.. so far....

Good luck with your manure management. It shows that you are a responsible horse owner because you are seriously addressing this issue on your farm.

Good luck!

Pam

 

[Levonsa]

We have a small spreader that can be pulled with a lawn mover or 4 wheeler. We spread it over our pasture, yard, garden, and the neigbors yard and garden occasionally. We have also used it as fill for low spots in the yard and pasture.

 

[brasstackminis]

I burned a huge pile of poo...however it is totally dry. Was scraped up from around the roundbales and we are in a drought!

So I burned the pile...no fun at all. It smolders forever! And the pile has to get air. So you have to stir it a bit when it is burining. Gas and other flammable liquids help to get it started, but I would get a friend to dig a hole with a bulldozer and bury it!! That was sooo much eaiser. I have done it both ways. If noone wants your poo, then it is either rent a dumpster, spread it or burn it...

good luck!!

 

[alphahorses]

I asked for a manure spreader for my 30th wedding anniversary, but to date, have not received it ....

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I don't have a manure spreader either, but would be THRILLED If I received one as a gift.

You know we're hopeless when we consider new manure spreaders to be a great gift, but I'm sure there are a lot of us on this forum!

LOL

 

[staceyfoster]

I only have 4 horses and I clean up their stalls and corral area 2 or 3 times a day.The poop pile just keeps getting bigger and bigger with old on bottom and new on top AND sides - I read about composting but right now it is winter and there is hay mixed with poop and snow - how can I keep it burning till there is only ashes -- I keep lighting it but after 1/2 hour or less it goes out on me -- is there a secret to keeping it burning ????
I do have a small pile here and there I use for my garden but it is under snow as well - not worried about that. I also want to shrink the big pile through the winter so come spring when I corral around my poop pile it will be less to clean up and move else where. 

Any ideas on how to rid my mountain of poooooo

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[ibquackers20]

here is a thought - I wonder what a wood chipper/shreader would be good for since it does a crappy job on chipping wood and branches - wonder what would happen if I was to feed it horse hockey pucks and frozen blocks of poop and snow over to an area beside the poo hill and after it was all chopped up covered it with plastic ?

anyone ever done that ??

wonder if come spring /summer if I would have lovely black stuff ?

or would that break my small wood chipper/shreader (hubby would kill me if I broke it ) but right now it is just a useless machine sitting winter and summer.

If it will break then I guess come summer I will be selling it - just taking up room in my garage right now - just an idea - any thoughts ???

 

[coopermini]

Not sure how many landscapers there are in your areabut in many places they will haul off for little or no charge as it mixes well with the yard waste they are already getting to make compost. If that is not an option try hiring one of the farm kids in the area to haul it off. Many of them may be looking for a way to get say$100 once or twice a year.

Burning never once sounded like a good option. If you ever do get it burning it can and will take days to burn. In that time a gust of wind can blow hot embers anywhere. A farm near us buned some brush and leaves somewhat near the house. When the fire looked out they left. The wind picked up the fire got burning again, blew hot embers into the grass and then burned their newly remodeled house flat.

 

[Bess Kelly]

I use run-ins for almost all of mine now.....so, only a few stalls to clean for some stallions (nice, since they are soooo neat

). Anyway, I bag mine in the nice heavy plastic bags the shavings come in. Those get into the little dump trailer for my mower.....which is where I shovel it when I clean the run-in's, etc......and I take it to the fields next door. The owner of that 23 acres leases it to a farmer who grows cotton. So, right now, it's waiting for Spring to be plowed & seeded. The farmer is ok with my spreading my horses manure there & it gets plowed under. If I let the trailer tip, then slowly drive off, it spreads the load out pretty well

I'd love one of those little $900 manure spreaders but, none has arrived here yet

Late Spring I sometimes borrow one and spread my yard (only with aged product -- and just before a heavy rain). I also keep my trees well fertilized.

An older gentleman up the road likes to get the bagged stuff in Spring for his garden. So, I collect some of the aged piles from an old area for that. He's great about it. Comes and gets the stuff & returns the bags.....

It's my deal that I call "I shovel & you plow" because he plants a big garden and I have picking privileges! GREAT deal!

Plus I have a 30 acre parcel behind my own property that has some areas which can use some "choice" fill. The owners have said it would be fine if I put any there (no one lives on it). All in all -- I have places for it but, must transport. If only I had a tractor with a front loader

Hey, it's a LOT of shoveling!!!

OH, guess you guys all know that --

 

[minimule]

My hubby keeps "joking" about getting a manure spreader and just driving up/down our unmaintained dirt road every night.

I have a big turnout where I dump all mine. I don't currently use shavings or bedding so it is straight manure. We live in a really sandy area so as the sand and manure mix together, it makes a great compost on it's own. I alternate who gets turned out into that turnout. The QH alone doesn't do much but if the whole herd gets out there, all the little piles get flattened out pretty quick.

I just offered some to my next door neighbor. They want to put in a big vegetable and flower bed and she said they will need a lot. One of my goals this year is to buy a dumpbed trailer to haul it to the landfill.

 

[Triggy&Blue&Daisy Too]

here is a thought - I wonder what a wood chipper/shreader would be good for since it does a crappy job on chipping wood and branches - wonder what would happen if I was to feed it horse hockey pucks and frozen blocks of poop and snow over to an area beside the poo hill and after it was all chopped up covered it with plastic ? anyone ever done that ??

wonder if come spring /summer if I would have lovely black stuff ?

or would that break my small wood chipper/shreader (hubby would kill me if I broke it ) but right now it is just a useless machine sitting winter and summer.

If it will break then I guess come summer I will be selling it - just taking up room in my garage right now - just an idea - any thoughts ??? 

 

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I have used our chipper/shredder with great success. It hasn't been much good for it's intended purpose but for manure chewing it's great! We don't usually freeze here but as long as I don't choke the shute it chops and blows the little apples into a nice little pile I can rake over my grass. I use the something akin to Woody Pet so it does decompose very fast no matter where I put it.

 

[ibquackers20]

Well right now I stuck an old pool cover over 1/2 of my poop pile and since it is winter I can not add water because it will freeze before I get it to the pile - so I just turned some of it over and put the plastic over - will wait to see what happens.

it is a mixture of wet hay and frozen poop - I also talked to hubby about getting the chipper in for a tune up and I will find out how useful that will be seeing that it sucks on wood -- if it does it will be renamed our poop chopper /

Now back to my hill of poop - question : should I add the stuff I get daily to it or leave it alone for now except for the weekly turning - will it unfreeze so turning will get easier ?

 

[shminifancier]

Here is what I have now for the last 10 years.. I live next to a wooded area.. just into the woods there is a slight lower area.. I started to fill into that lower area and after time built it up...Now after I dump my trailer that I pull behind my Lawn tractor..I don't leave it piled up I spread it out some...And now after years I have not only a flat area but I can drive on it and just extend this area further into the woods which is still at a 5 foot drop off now.. Also I should note I have not many minis but at one time I had 5 AND I also have had 2 Steers raising them up to 1,000 LBs. So that is a lot of poo of the worst kind~!.. And even after years and years ow with steer poo mixed in with minis You Still can SEE A pile~!.. As I go into the woods further I flatten it out on top and finally can drive over what I put out there in the beginning..And being on a slightly lower area Nobody can see from the road,, nobody can see it from the house, and being a ways away from the house no smell, no flies either~!! Works great for me as I don;t have a place to spread unless I want to Spread it on my landlords fields...He does that with his Big Manure Spreader because He milks 60 cows~! So if I wanted to put my horses poo along with the steers would be no big deal at all... But this way I also got to bury a steer that died suddenly a few years back and just put him over the edge and then just put manure on top... Good way to kit rid of something without paying 150 dollars for the renderer coming to pick up... Decomposed right along the manure no smell no tell tale evidence either...

 

[Dandy]

I haven't read this whole thread so maybe someone else has responded similar to mine. We have the road that poo built! Well not a road exactly. We have a pond on the way to our barn and a levee. The area in front of the barn is not very big. In the late fall and winter months my hubby has us dump the manure right where the ground ends. He flatnens it out over the winter and Wahlah we now have an extra 4 feet of ground. He has been doing this for a few years. In the summer we use our gator and cart it out to the back pasture that has a huge eroded area and we dump it. It is slowly building up. My hubb also drags the pastures periodically in spring and summer. Works for us.

 

[shminifancier]

Cool...

that sounds very much what I am doing~! Only instead of a road leading to a pond mine is a Road out into the woods

Yes I even drag mine so that it is almost level and not left in a pile, even with the loads of steer manure I have hauled out there

I haven't read this whole thread so maybe someone else has responded similar to mine.  We have the road that poo built!  Well not a road exactly.  We have a pond on the way to our barn and a levee.  The area in front of the barn is not very big.  In the late fall and winter months my hubby has us dump the manure right where the ground ends.  He flattens it out over the winter and Wahlah we now have an extra 4 feet of ground.  He has been doing this for a few years.  In the summer we use our gator and cart it out to the back pasture that has a huge eroded area and we dump it.  It is slowly building up.  My hubby also drags the pastures periodically in spring and summer.  Works for us.

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[Ashley]

We pile it up and make some if it into mulch. Mom puts it on her flower beds and what not. THe excess we dig a hole and bury it. Of if we dont have the area to do that, we bet a spreader and load it up, haul it to my aunts and put it on there fields.

 

[JO~*]

During the dry months I till the pile every so often make the best compost in no time.

 

[RobinRTrueJoy]

I bag it in heavy duty trash bags. Hang a sign at the super market. People love the stuff. I give it away, they come and get it! I also dump it under my evergreen trees occasionally. Doen't seem to burn the and they grow like crazy.

 

[Mareishtude]

We haul all of ours to the landfill where it is composted and used by nurseries etc. We have a very small place and can't use it all on our pasture nor do we like piles of poo around. Mary

Wow, lots of good information here! I was searching to see who used which type/brand of manuer spreader

since we've been thinking of investing in one and came accross this thread.

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[Cathy_H]

We put the manure only in a pile & someone comes to get it every year & sells it to small gardeners......... We take the actual bedding & make a small pile in each dry lot for those horses to pee on.. If you could separate bedding from manure, you will have a smaller pile to get rid of............... Oh & we have used the old bedding for mulch in the yard & some of our foaling straw around my small garden.

 

[Connie Ballard]

We use a Newer Spreader and it is AWESOME! Cost like $499...it is wood and aluminum, never rusts, hard tires...never a flat. It will hold about 4-5 large muck buckets of sawdust/manure. I hook it to my golf cart (could use riding mower, 4-wheeler...etc and head out to my driving track which is just a mowed track in a 900' x 150' field, hop out, kick the bars on the wheel in against the wheel....drive around while it spreads maybe 1/2" thick...cant hardly see it on the track. Hop out...kick the bars back open (when push the bar in on the wheel...a post catches on it...and drives the agitator under all the manure).

Its so light weight and balanced could pull it down a barn asile and fill it from the stalls too.

If buying one, do get the agitator...its extra but worth every penny. It can handle hay mixed in with manure, but if you put a manure bucket of hay/straw in it....wraps around the agitator. I carry a razor knife on the vehicle if that happens...just slice through the hay wad...drive on...spreads that too. I just dont put large volumes of dry hay in it....no problem with the leftover stuff they dont eat in the stall.

Besides...the longhorns across the road...love scrap hay I rake up in my aisles....they run to the gate when see me coming...must be a special treat over their round bales and pasture I guess. LOL

Two things cant live without....my Newer Spreader and my dishwasher! :bgrin