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claireelizabeth

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My pony is kept at a friends private yard, they have agreed I can put another one in with her if I can find a solution to the extra manure she'll create. Does anyone have any good ideas for removing it. I thought about asking the local allotments?
 
I've always bagged up and left it out for people at other fields I've been at but it's different here as the yard is at their home and they don't want lots of people turning up to take manure so I was trying to find a solution where we can put it on a muck heap and remove it a load at a time once a month or so but not many gardeners need that much and someone else said gardeners don't like manure straight from fields as it doesn't rot down.
 
I put it in bags and leave it at the field gate which is beside a footpath, it goes all year round. You might need to advertise locally to make people aware if you aren't near a public road. Allotment holders would probably be grateful for it, but some don't like shavings in the much and prefer straw, it is better if you can get it really well rotted too.

Another option is to try some dendrobaena worms in the muck heap which will reduce the amount.
 
Sorry, just read your above post, and see you want to get rid of a load at a time. The RS I used to teach at used to sell the muck at a set amount per load, but you need a suitable vehicle to load it into, and forking a load on and off is blooming hard work, but there is (or was) a market for it. They also sold it by the bag delivered and made it cheaper for the more bags that were ordered but again it needs to be well rotted manure. Most people ordered 10 - 20 bags at a time.
 
Do you know anyone with a wood burning stove?

You can use a mould to turn it into blocks. Leave the blocks to dry and they can then be burnt. It does not smell and the ash is a very good fertiliser.

I looked into this when we were going to have a wood burner installed. The £3000 estimate for supply and install put us off, you need to burn an awful lot of poo to get that kind of money back!
 
I didn't know that, we looking into a woodburner recently too and they are soooo expensive! Our neighbour has one though. How long do the blocks take to dry out?
 
claireelizabeth said:
I didn't know that, we looking into a woodburner recently too and they are soooo expensive! Our neighbour has one though. How long do the blocks take to dry out?
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I guess it depends on the weather how long they take, ten days to a month I would have thought, but I don't really know, as I never made any blocks / bricks.

We were really looking forward to having a real fire in the lounge, we found a nice stove for £500, it was the £2500 for the installation of the flue that blew the deal!
 
I know someone who tried the poo bricks, and if you are burning for yourself it might be worth doing, but the person I knew never managed to get them to dry out properly so they wouldn't burn properly, it was very time consuming too and didn't really reduce the amount on the muck heap significantly. You can get the moulds fairly cheaply though so worth a try if you've somewhere to dry them out.
 
claireelizabeth said:
My pony is kept at a friends private yard, they have agreed I can put another one in with her if I can find a solution to the extra manure she'll create. Does anyone have any good ideas for removing it. I thought about asking the local allotments?
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I put muck for two horses into those 40 litre tub trug buckets and take it to the local allottment on the way home from the yard. They fill 4 buckets a day which fits in the back of my little van and as I have to drive past the place it's far less hassle than a muck heap. I also get some free veggies every so often
 
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Do people use 'fresh' poo- straight from the field with no straw etc - like you get when you have poo-picked the field?

I was thinking of bagging mine up and leaving it by the field gate but if its the 'wrong' poo theres no point......I would have hoards of deranged penshioners after me:eek:
 
I agree with Eggs above - you really need to give this thread a new title. But for as long as the title remains what it is - here's my answer: Simples! - I flush it down the loo!
 
touchstone said:
I know someone who tried the poo bricks, and if you are burning for yourself it might be worth doing, but the person I knew never managed to get them to dry out properly so they wouldn't burn properly, it was very time consuming too and didn't really reduce the amount on the muck heap significantly. You can get the moulds fairly cheaply though so worth a try if you've somewhere to dry them out.
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Don't even think about it. The work involved in making and drying the blocks is nowhere near worth the return in heat.

Anyone want to buy a block making mould?
 
poppymoo said:
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Do people use 'fresh' poo- straight from the field with no straw etc - like you get when you have poo-picked the field?

I was thinking of bagging mine up and leaving it by the field gate but if its the 'wrong' poo theres no point......I would have hoards of deranged penshioners after me:eek:
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We leave ours all bagged up outside the entrance to our yard. The allotment peeps actually go hunting for the pure poo bags. One of the guys who picks up goes for the straw ones cos he reuses it in his duckhouse until it's rotted down.. so different people pick up different bags... all disapeears quickly. There are 6 horses on our yard and sometimes the beasties have problems keeping up with demand. Even had one guy wait around whilst i was poo picking the field cos he knew he'd get the "pure fresh stuff"... his words :)

The demand dropped off cos there was a big media scare about tetanus being in the faeces - same kind of stupid scare as the MMR jab got and joe public didn't have the intelligence to research it... Sorry. Hijack of a hijack. Gotta be a first :)
 
I keep my horses at home and find it really difficult to deal with the ever growing muck heap (mine is all poo straight from field). The farmer will come and get it about twice a year but he doesnt really want to. My solution was to buy a trailer (8ft by 4ft one with tailgate off ebay for £250!) and fill that up direct, then I take it to the local allotments when full - about 1 every 2-3 weeks - where they built me a special bay to put it. The gardeners usually use it all up by the time I take the next one. If they ever get overstocked then I will have to ask another local allotments to see if I can take it there. Its a bit of a pain having to shovel it all out but keeps me fit!
 
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