…Peet, visit www.sweetpeet.com. Manure management is an issue for every home horsekeeper. The June 2005 issue of Practical Horseman magazine provides expert advice on storing, composting, and disposing of manure….
…its tracks, and you will definitely spend many more hours on chores. Large Implements Obviously, you need to handle manure. While composting is an alternative, it’s fairly labor intensive, especially…
…Bedding/Stall Cleaning Composting manure, Horseman’s Handbook, March, pg. 40; Sept., pg. 35 Leveling stall floor, Farm Fixups, April, pg. 56 Boarding Selecting a boarding barn, At-A-Glance, May, pg. 109 Reducing…
…you choose can offer improved time savings, space savings, cost savings, improved composting and fewer dust or allergy problems. For what is most readily available on the market today, we…
…egg to adulthood, so breaking their breeding cycle means getting fresh manure out of their reach weekly. Removing manure from the property would be ideal, but composting also works. In…
…controls, too. Through the natural composting process, they contribute to the breakdown of the nitrogen in the horse’s urine and manure. This process eliminates the urine smell often present in…
…pile. Covering the pile will have the double benefit of keeping the flies at bay, while helping the composting process underneath. Other battle tactics There are several ways that you…
…the bacteria. Even with composting, temperatures adequate to kill bacteria are only reached at the center of the pile. You’re on the right track, but we would wait a bit…
…to the environment. Limited studies have shown that treated manure used in compost heaps may interfere with composting reaching temperatures sufficiently high to kill pathogenic bacteria. However, pyrantel tartrate breaks…
If you’ve got horses, you’ve got manure. And with manure, you need to do something with it: Forget piling it up. That’s smelly, and simply puts off the problem. Composting…
