Manure : what do you do ?

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Some yards have manure heaps, some don't.
What do you do with it? Do you burn it? Get it removed?
Particularly around this area, would like to know what happens to the muck.. are there waste companies who take it?
 
Never ever burn your manure - it's illegal for a start - but most importantly it breaks down the goodness that you can plough back into your fields if it is burned. I spread my manure on our fields - organic fertilizer
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We bag up it up from the fields and sell it for 50p a bag 3 for £1.20 and always goes!

The wet and muck from stables goes on a muckheap and removed twice a year (only in at night in winter)
 
bag it up ( as mucking out, striaght into big bags) its a bit tedious but, less sweeping up as can muck out in the stable!!then we have a huge trailer which is loaded daily and take it to the local allotment - they love me!! needless to say i have plenty of free lovely local veg!
 
We do bag it up, but over the bad wet weather, nobody came out to collect, so we had hundreds of bags outside, rotting down. Most have now been cleared cos we spent days re bagging and tidying.
However, while we we were having a bag crisis, we tipped it into the unused front paddock.
Now we have to remove it.
Bearing in mind, lots of horses = lots of manure!
Have to get it removed asap. Fire sounds good lol
 
We have 5 pits in a field (one for each year) and put the current years bedding/manure (straw and wood chips etc) in a pit. At the end of the year we put earth on top and let it mature for 5 years.

Once it has reached 5 years old we open it up remove the manure and put it in our industrial 'Pooley Compactor Machine' which cubes it up and then seals it in heavy duty industrial grade plastic bags. We sell the bags through a number of garden centres.
 
we put ours on a trailer which is then emptyed in some local allotments as there doing a comunial compost heap thingy. when they no longer need it it goes down to a muck heap on the field ready for spreading later.
 
hmmm. We are not allowed to have a muck heap
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I need someone to take it away really, just having trouble finding the person who can!
 
Bag it an dput it out for locals to take, which they do as a rule. But this winter they have not!
It usually goes very well....
 
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Can you sneak it into the Brown Bins
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or take it to the tip !!!
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I guess not with lots of horses. If you are not allowed to burn maybe ask the council what you should do ? Bet they'll be as helpful as this post !
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Err, dig a big hole and bury it
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Or can a farmer take it away? Seriously though, I hope you find a way. Good Luck
 
I do find bags easier. Long ago there was a skip which stayed on the yard, and was emptied when full. Over winter it was fortnightly
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It cost 185 each time, which is a fair amount!
Anyway, we tried several things and bags were easiest, and people collected them.
Obviously it costs a fair bit in bags too! But cheaper than the skip.
But I can't find anyone now who will give us a skip or grab lorry, nobody seems to do it now.
I will have to think of a plan, or get work experience to bag the lot (must be hundreds of bags worth!)
 
At my yard we have a container delivered and then it was collected every two weeks but ended up going away half empty so did not make any logic and was costly as only 9 horses at our yard.....so I understand YO has brought a reconditioned one and is collected every 3 months or there's about......does work and is cheaper to do it this way!
 
I guess it's not so hot here so doesn't smell as bad!
We did have one on ther yard at one time, I loved making steps, made a bootiful staircase out of it
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But when time came to remove it....... lots of pesky rats had nested in the warm steamy stuff!
 
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could you not invest in a galvanised trailer and then find a friendly farmer who would allow you to tip it weekly for a small return?

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friendly farmer eh? small return eh?... I am 5' 1, u think that small enuff?
 
Had a stroke of good luck regarding our muck!
Next door has quite a few large glasshouses, and has been sold to a lovely couple. Bit narked as we would have bought it if he'd have told us he was selling the land off separately, desperate for more grazing!
The upshot of it is that they came over at the weekend and asked if they could have ALL of our muck off us. They're going to buy a trailer so that we can muck out into that, and they'll remove it when it's full, empty and return it.
NO MORE MUCK HEAP!!
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I was using straw for my 3 horses who at this time of the year spend 20 hours out of 24 stabled. I was getting through 1 and a half bales a day and mucking out 2 wheelbarrow fulls from each stable. What a nightmare. My muck heap was taken away by local farmer every 3 - 4 weeks at a cost of £30. Have just changed to rubber mats and Woody Pet. Now all three stables take a fraction of the time and only one wheelbarrow of muck between them. Would definately recommend it.
 
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