| I grew up on a dairy farm and learned early in my life | | | | horse weighs approximately 900 - 1,100 pounds. A |
| that cow manure is useful. That usefulness may have | | | | horse that size produces around 8 to 9 tons; or |
| been born out of necessity, though. After all, the | | | | between 16,000 and 18,000 pounds of manure every |
| manure from a herd of 50 cows has to go | | | | year. That's a lot of horse manure. |
| somewhere right? That's how I learned that cow | | | | What is done with that manure? One option for |
| manure makes a great fertilizer. But we never had | | | | disposal is to haul it to a landfill site, but that is not an |
| horses on our farm so I started wondering if horse | | | | eco-friendly option and some landfills will not accept |
| manure is useful as a fertilizer too. | | | | horse manure. The best option is to spread the horse |
| Although there is a wide range of weights among | | | | manure on land so it decomposes quickly, or to |
| horses depending on the breed, an average adult riding | | | | compost it and then use it to improve soil quality. |