Getting rid of poop

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DawnF

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I will be buying my own yard towards the end of summer and to make sure it is a viable option I am writing a business plan as I will be having some liveries etc. Although I am not planning on borrowing any money I always find business plans are great for finding out that things are far more expensive than I'd like to believe!! Obviously didn't do one before I bought the four legged ginger monster!
Anyway, I was wondering if you kind people would share with me your methods of getting rid of mountains of poop/bedding and how much it costs you etc etc. Any info would be greatly received. I am working the business plan on a basis of ten horses on 15 acres.
Many thanks, Dawn x.
 
we spread ours back on the land, so from june to june we collect then spread it out..chris then ploughs it in...boosts the yields the farm has..

we do however have some people from the neighbouring villages who come and help themsleves, including the local copper!!, chris has also been known to deliver for the price of fuel and trailer load to people...

our next door neighbour grows lots of organic veg which he sells to the local fruit shop and he aqlways uses our muck......

we have never sold it...however i know yards that do...we have 22 horses here 18 in stables with a mixture of straw and shavings..its great stuff!!!
 
We muck out directly into a 4.5 ton agricultural tipping trailer and then move it with a tractor and make a pile for each years muck in one of our fields.

We leave it and then start using it for mulching after it has rotted down for 7 years.
 
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We muck out directly into a 4.5 ton agricultural tipping trailer and then move it with a tractor and make a pile for each years muck in one of our fields.

We leave it and then start using it for mulching after it has rotted down for 7 years.

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check that you can still do this, there is muck heap managemnet now from defra....i think you can only store it now for a maximum of a year..
 
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we spread ours back on the land, so from june to june we collect then spread it out..chris then ploughs it in...boosts the yields the farm has..

we do however have some people from the neighbouring villages who come and help themsleves, including the local copper!!, chris has also been known to deliver for the price of fuel and trailer load to people...

our next door neighbour grows lots of organic veg which he sells to the local fruit shop and he aqlways uses our muck......

we have never sold it...however i know yards that do...we have 22 horses here 18 in stables with a mixture of straw and shavings..its great stuff!!!

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Just out of interest, how long do you leave the fields before you put horses out to graze again ?? I have a huge muckheap and my farmer friend suggested to spread it over the land..... I was in two minds...
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I sell mine to local gardeners. I have straw beds though which rot down really quickly, whereas shavings take forever and ever.

Back breaking work though I find.

Think most yards round here pay to have their muck taken away.
 
Although not my own yard... we have an area concreted with back and sides. We tip our muck in and once a fortnight it's squashed into a pile at the back with a JCB. It rots quicker that way as it generates more heat. It's then spread onto the land.

Muck generally rots down more quickly if it's stacked, so if you make sure the heap is kept tidy then you'll be able to dispose of it quicker.
 
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