Manure Pickup.

Kelly4NC · 08-13-2006, 11:01 AM

I don't know if this is the right place. But anywho, I was wondering if any of you pickup the manure in the paddocks? And also use it as fertilizer?
If you do, how to accomplish it?

cook1745 · 08-13-2006, 11:14 AM

Yes I pick my manure up weekly. It hepls keep my horses grazing better in the pasture. No I don't use it for fertilizer. I buy fertilizer.

**divinemisselle** · 08-13-2006, 12:35 PM

I do pick it up in the small areas, but not in the pastures. It all goes in the manure pile with the stall discards to compost for a year or more. By then it is black gold and I do fertilize with it. Take care to compost it well, though, or it will reseed your flower beds.

Faceman · 08-13-2006, 01:16 PM

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Take care to compost it well, though, or it will reseed your flower beds.

I do find an ocassional flower in my oat and bermuda beds...

cowgirlmommy · 08-13-2006, 04:43 PM

I clean Jazzy's 3 acre pasture twice a week,which only means going around with my shovel and wheel barrow and then disgarding it! And her stall in the barn where she goes at night gets cleaned out every morning!

Kelly4NC · 08-13-2006, 04:45 PM

would a shovel be easier than the fork?

cowgirlmommy · 08-13-2006, 04:53 PM

For the pasture, the small, square shovel works awesome! In the stall, my fork is used because of the straw!

**Range** · 08-13-2006, 07:41 PM

Yes, with a shovel and a wheelbarrow, every so often. It does go on my garden in the fall.

Mule Fool · 08-15-2006, 12:46 PM

We clean our corrals daily. We compost the manure in a large pile which we cover with a tarrp to keep the correct moisture content. Then we use it on our vegetable garden. In the pastures we drag with a harrow a few times a year.

08-13-2006, 11:01 AM
Kelly4NC Greenbroke Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Clyde, NC > 9 miles of friendly people, plus 1 old crab Posts: 3,242	Manure Pickup. I don't know if this is the right place. But anywho, I was wondering if any of you pickup the manure in the paddocks? And also use it as fertilizer? If you do, how to accomplish it? __________________ *Support the wild horses on North Carolina Outer Banks* http://www.corollawildhorses.com/

08-13-2006, 11:14 AM
cook1745 Greenbroke Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 3,634	Yes I pick my manure up weekly. It hepls keep my horses grazing better in the pasture. No I don't use it for fertilizer. I buy fertilizer.

08-13-2006, 12:35 PM
divinemisselle Super Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Central Kentucky Posts: 6,650	I do pick it up in the small areas, but not in the pastures. It all goes in the manure pile with the stall discards to compost for a year or more. By then it is black gold and I do fertilize with it. Take care to compost it well, though, or it will reseed your flower beds. __________________ *Ditto.*

08-13-2006, 04:43 PM
cowgirlmommy Long Yearling Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Rocky Mountains of British Columbia! Posts: 1,459	I clean Jazzy's 3 acre pasture twice a week,which only means going around with my shovel and wheel barrow and then disgarding it! And her stall in the barn where she goes at night gets cleaned out every morning! __________________ "The only way to begin again, is to first forget..." Colonel Francis Clay Mosby

08-13-2006, 04:45 PM
Kelly4NC Greenbroke Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Clyde, NC > 9 miles of friendly people, plus 1 old crab Posts: 3,242	would a shovel be easier than the fork? __________________ *Support the wild horses on North Carolina Outer Banks* http://www.corollawildhorses.com/

08-13-2006, 04:53 PM
cowgirlmommy Long Yearling Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Rocky Mountains of British Columbia! Posts: 1,459	For the pasture, the small, square shovel works awesome! In the stall, my fork is used because of the straw! __________________ "The only way to begin again, is to first forget..." Colonel Francis Clay Mosby

08-13-2006, 07:41 PM
Range Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Back of Beyond Posts: 5,887	manure Yes, with a shovel and a wheelbarrow, every so often. It does go on my garden in the fall. __________________ If it harms none, do what you will.

08-15-2006, 12:46 PM
Mule Fool Started Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Washington State Posts: 2,283	We clean our corrals daily. We compost the manure in a large pile which we cover with a tarrp to keep the correct moisture content. Then we use it on our vegetable garden. In the pastures we drag with a harrow a few times a year.