I also have a very muddy pasture, can it be used to help the mud from being so thick or will it cause problems with fungus or bacteria on the horses legs?
2006-11-22 03:35:44 · 19 answers · asked by lady9 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Put it on u and make it as a mud mask !! Or throw it @ the neighbors!! GREAT FUN!
2006-11-22 03:39:25 · answer #1 · answered by I hate pink 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sell it, puts adds in the paper etc. And check other farmers or Agricultural people if they want it spread on their fields. As for muddy pastures, manure will NOT help at all. You are just increasing organic matter and thus the muddiness. The muddiness comes from having too many horses traversing on a single plot of land. A good rule of thumb is an acre per horse, that will usually only give you muddiness near the feeding and water areas.
We have our pastures set up with a common area, that always is a muddy wreck, and 3 corridor pastures coming off of it that we can rotate and thus save from being eaten down and muddied. The only way to really decrease the mud is to landscape and build up the pasture area and drain it somewhere else, if you have the room. You could also plant some vegetation to soak up the water, but if you have a lot of horses in the pasture, they will eat it down before you get any benefits.
A lot depends on the type of soil you have. If you have a mostly clay soil for a couple feet down, (IE an old farmer's field) you are pretty much always going to have muddy pastures unless you can decrease the traffic there. If it only a couple inches down and the muddiness is mostly organic matter (poop), scraping it may work.
2006-11-22 03:53:24 · answer #2 · answered by D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you put manure in the muddy pasture you are going to have horses with scratches or mud fever or what ever you want to call the fungus on the backside of their legs.
It will harbor bacteria and make it worse also it will help the spature to stay wetter than it is now.
If you have to much either spread it or have someone spread it for you or pay to have it hauled off.
2006-11-22 05:00:49 · answer #3 · answered by tlctreecare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can either give it away to local farmer/gardeners or sell it to them. People buy alot of that 'organic' stuff. Of course you should keep some for your garden since it makes excellent fertilizer.
Yeah i don't think it's a very good idea to put down manure on top of the mud since after all it's poop, and it's waste from the horses body.
The place where i ride puts down wood shavings on the extremely muddy spots or some kind of dirt/sand
2006-11-22 06:35:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sell the manure as fertilzer to a local farmer or maybe someone a local greenhouse or something. As for your pasture do you have anyother fenced in one with nice lush grass? The moist mud could cause some hoof problems, that is something you should adress.
2006-11-22 04:08:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about using it on the muddy pasture. I wouldn't think it would be a good idea to allow the horses to walk around in it all day. Horses are prone to all sorts of foot infections even on clean ground. Put an ad in the paper offering "Shovel-it-yourself organic fertilizer". Tell people they're welcome to take as much manure as they like, as long as they haul it off themselves. You might be surprised at the response.
2006-11-22 03:42:11 · answer #6 · answered by texastailfeathers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Also, contact a local live bait shop that sells worms or contact a worm farmer directly. They can use the manure as well.
The first barn I ever worked at sold manure to a worm farmer, but you have to be careful to not sell manure for a month after deworming your horses.
2006-11-22 04:50:47 · answer #7 · answered by keylime1602 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to grow a 2 acre vegetable garden & an acre of flowers.
There was a man in the area that piled the manure in stacks to rot then sold it for fertalizer. He used to supply me with the fertalizer for veggies. He also sold it to others. Home owners who love to grow things will pay to have this service. I don't think it would be a good idea to use it where the horses walk. It must be rotted down to use for fertalizer.
2006-11-22 03:43:24 · answer #8 · answered by Bethany 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We live in NV and if you don't use the manure to your advantage you loose out. We have to mix it in with the mud so it has some substance and the horses don't sink when it rains. it soaks up and makes it easier for the horses in the mud. we also use it in our arenas to break up the clay and hard ground. makes a great barrel racing ground.
2006-11-25 20:54:21 · answer #9 · answered by Love2dash 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can sell it for manure, or you can just keep it in a compost pile until you need it for gardening or something.
2006-11-22 05:26:17 · answer #10 · answered by Fearless 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋