Manure (cow vs. horse, buffalo) for vegetable garden?

Question

I live in horse country and have few dairy or beef farms. Lot's of horse's and a buffalo farm down the street. Do they all provide the same benefit, or is one better than the other?

Answer 1

I live in Australia, down the road from a race course, get free horse droppings, find them great on vegs and everything for that matter, specially roses. Trick to any droppings is to let them dry out in large plastic bag for a time to kill all the weeds that the animals have eaten - good luck

Answer 2

In my experience, Horse manure vs Bovine/Bison (both are rumenants, so digest foods the same) are markedly different.

Horse Manure - less digested, more "raw" in form. Needs composting (about 6 mos.) to kill undigested oat seeds that may be present or you can top dress immediately and use the oat greens are "green-manure". Burns less then others, but because of stall bedding that is present is more acidic.

Bovine Manures - Needs to compost (min. 1 yr) or will burn plants. Must apply fall/winter prior to planting in that location. Higher in nitrogen to Horse. Is completely digested by bovine so no wayward seeds, although a small amount my still survive if the are hard hulled. With the food stuffs that are fed to bovines I worry about "what" is being put into the soil. Most used manure in agriculture, next to chicken manure.

Personally I prefer horse manure - you gotta use what is more easily available to you in quanity and in price; why pay for bovine when the stable down the road is trying to get rid of their manure pile for free. There are some great resources online about the values in different manures - sheep, rabbit, chicken, goat, horse and bovine. You have to look at the requirements of your particular soil and go from there. If you have a high nitrogen level but a basic soil, then go for horse manure to even the odds out. So check out what your soil already provides you and go from there.

Answer 3

I used dried cow manure approximately 3 years in the past, and it burned each and every thing. Now i pass to the feed save and purchase rooster manure. Even which would be rather effective, so I blend somewhat with the soil and use it intently. i've got on no account tried horse manure. i think of it relies upon on what the animals are fed as to how effective the manure would be. i've got on no account tried raising aloe, so i can not talk to that. Sorry.

Answer 4

A horse's digestive system is not very efficient so you will get weeds from the seeds that pass through. Cow manure is better. I don't know about buffalo.

Answer 5

As long as it's not a slaughter house and you apply before the seeds germinate

Horse manure "Might" have a lot of sawdust or shavings, you will need to add a little lime to compensate

I wouldn't hesitate to use anyone of them, just don't add more than a couple inches thick per year

Answer 6

all I know is that you never want manure from any animal that eats anything but grasses, etc.............not a carnivorous animal's manure.
Be sure that it has been decomposed with time...or it will burn your plants