Muck heaps on Grazing paddocks - advice needed pls?

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Normally I spread my muck heap onto my neighbours fields.

I dont have that option this year and i am wondering if anyone out there puts horse much on paddocks that are going to be grazed that summer?

Any advice yeigh or neigh please?

My horses are well wormed and ive no visiting horses or liverys
 
I'm sure that in one of this months horsey magazines I read that as long as the muck had "matured" for at least six months that speading it onto paddocks was actually a good idea. I'll have a look and if not the case I'll report back! x
 
I spread my muk heaps on my winter paddocks once my horses come off them. Then leave them for 6 months. I take a cut of haylage off them a couple of months later and then the fields are left until winter. All my horses are worm counted and wormed as appropriate. And we have no worm problems at all. I would not want to do this if I was grazing them less than 6 months after so it would depend on how long the fields can be left. Great way to add organic matter to fields, and far far cheaper than the high price of fertiliser
 
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