Those with own yards- what do you do with muck heaps?

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As the title really - how do you dispose of your muck heaps, given that you're not allowed to burn them any more?
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Does everyone have a friendly farmer who uses it for fert, or is there another way of getting rid of them?
 
We have a variety of lovely gardeners that come and help themselves. Might be worth popping down to your local allotments and inviting them to come and help themselves?
 
We have a trailer that we put our muck on and a farmer takes it away when we ring him to tell him the trailer is full!
 
I empty my wheel barrows into my tractor bucket, then empty it into a trailer and then I take it to a farmers and dump it on the end of his muck heap and all he wants in return is a bit of fish. ( My dad is in the fishing industry) Just ask around. If your neighbors are farmers ask them. Ask horsey friends.
 
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Cool thanks guys. Those with friendly farmers how did you find them? Just ring round??

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Luckily, I keep my horse at my friend's house and her brother is the friendly farmer!
 
A local farmer usually swaps it for a few round bales of straw, I also take a trailer load down to the woods and just dump it there if I feel like it.
 
Although I have stables, I v rarely use them, so mine is pure manure from the field. The farmer I rent the yard from uses it eventually, or people take it for their gardens
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here's one that I bet none of you have thought of....

I'm turning my muck heap into a giant wormery - worms love poo.

you have to have 2 heaps - as you muck out you put it onto the 1st heap, and each week you put some from the back of that heap (that's been there a while) onto the top of the worm's heap.

they reduce the volume by up to 90% and you get awesome compost for the veg patch in return!
 
Farmer does ours once a year for £50 (we only have 2)

most other small private yards leave it in sacks and it is always popular, some charge some don't and most say please return the bags. One even puts wet straw in bags for people. Not sure I could be doing with it though.
 
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we pack some of ours into bricks, dry it & burn in the house, it doesnt smell any worse than wood or coal & means i get free fuel for winter too.

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Haven't heard of that one.

What bedding do you use and is it well rotted down?
 
I muck out strait into garden wast bags (only two in) ,OH works for a dairy farmer in mornings and he takes bags to work and puts in muck spreader. do like the sound of burning it ,how do you make the bricks and do you have an open fire or wood burner?
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we have an open fire & brouht a brickette maker,normally use muck thats about a month old (started to dry out a bit but not got to the gooie stage) wew tend to line the machine with a single sheet of newspaper & fill with poo, then once the machine has turned them to bricks we leave them for about a week to dry out. then burn them asas normal wood.

the boy is out all summer so muck heap is just Poo, winter he is bedded on wood pellets/paper & the others are bedded on straw.
we have an ecomania Log Maker, its designed for paper but works really well.
 
Mine is pure poo-pickings from the field. My neighbours take some, we use some for our veg garden, and this year I advertised it on Freecycle - a chap with a new and enormous garden comes once a fortnight and takes the heap away.
 
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