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Location: NY | I know a person that build a stable and the manurer truck is inside the barn( in a seperted area), were the wagon is the area is leveal with the floor of the barn. now the question- he is going to get a lifter that pick up garbage can on wheel to dump in the wagon ?? has anybody heared of this( I have not) |
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Location: South Central OK | From an infection control standpoint this is a horrible thing to do...keep animal waste inside longer than needed. His fly problem will shoot through the roof, mark my words. Once one animal gets sick he's increasing the likelihood of all of them becoming exposed. Flies on sick horse poop, fly back to healthy horse and bite. If he is doing this and dumping it every day and cleaning the waste completely(washing with disinfectant) from the "dump bins" then this can work but if he's going to allow waste to accumulate for days and then dump(imagine lots of rainy days) he'll have increased vet bills. Not to mention the ammonia given off by rotting urine soaked shavings, talk about a respiratory nightmare! |
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Location: CA | Sounds like a lot of work...as if cleaning corrals isn't enough work already. Two friends of mine have sloping properties and have built manure composters into the hillside downhill form their barns. They clean, take the wheelbarrow on flat ground to a dug out composting site, then tilt and it all falls out pretty as pie! Is that clear? So, the barn is on higher ground than the compost pit, and they've built a tier below (and some little distance from the barn) that they can dump on top of. When the manure composts, they get their tractors and load up from the lower level. I'm jealous. It looks so easy and their gardens look great from the compost too! |
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Location: NY | You said just what I told him and he said I was crazy. He still plans on doing the manure inside I ask him to come to this site and look at what other people are saying about the Idear. AAAAAA  MY head hurts. If he don't come I will print this page and show him It is not just me that think this is a realy bad idear |
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Location: michigan | Are you saying her is going to let the wagon sit there until its full then dump it? If so- I don't see a problem. there are lots of ways to spread an infection. You could do everything by the book and still get sick horses. I wouldn't get worked up over it. Its not unusal for horse manure to be collected in a truck or a holding pit until its ready to be dumped. Sometimes its spread on a field, composted or just piled up until it can be removed. Our cow manure is pushed into a pit then hauled out when its full. Our horse manure is also piled until it can be hauled. Just wondering how that can lead to infection.... |
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Location: NY | What I can not see is the manure pile is in the barn in an area next to the main ails and this lifter? that pick up bucket and dumps them. I have never hear of this lifer |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | I've only got 2 1/2 acres now and when I clean the stalls I dump it all in the arena and run a drag over it. That breaks it up so it can dry out and blow away with the next gust of wind. And there is no lack of those in the desert!! And we have almost no flys. |
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Location: NY | well here in this area you can not put manure on the ground ( unless you buy it for a green house or nursery) we have to pay to have it removed go finger |
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