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Manure can make a great fertilizer, but it can be a poor soil amendment, since it enriches your soil with phosphorous. Never use manure from meat-eating animals (like dogs, cats, and pigs), since there’s a possibility it may contain parasitic disease organisms. Dairy cow manure is best.
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What about horse manure? Is it good to add?? or too rich ?? And what can I do with it? I have 10 horses and PLENTY of manure.
Horse, sheep, goats and other herbivores are fine. You just want to avoid poop from meat eating animals.
You might try composting your horse manure first instead of just applying it plain, since you have so much of it.
Thank you, Lars
I am in the developmental stages of a charitable org. for children dealing with all of these issues and animal assisted activities. I also thought about bagging the compost with the used feed bags and letting the children sell them for fundraising. If we plant the seed to recycle and introduce (bring back) organic gardening while they are young, they can avoid a lot of the problems that we are facing today: Obesity, disease, and the rapid depletion of natural resources.
I am going to be needing all of the help that I can get, advice, tips, volunteers, etc…….
Email me at silvertownfarm13@yahoo.com.
Re: using horse manure: my mum always said the following:
1) You don’t want to use fresh manure on the garden. Let it age for a few months.
2) You want horse manure that has been pee’d on. This is easier to get from a horse that is stable’d rather than a horse that roams free,
So pee’d on and aged is the best. If you make a manure pile to one side of your area that will keep it tidied out of the way but let it age. I often call up stables in my area and get manure from them. They are usually only too happy to have someone take it away.
Hope this helps.
She should know - some of my earliest memories as a kid are of the box and shovel my mum had in the back of her car. We lived in an area where people had horses that they rode on the roads and she would stop everytime she saw a nice fresh pile and scoop it into the box. She has finely tuned her manure techniques over the past 40 years!
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