Poop Removal for two horses. Sorry no composting. No machinery

[Mukluk]

We live in a community where we are required to remove horse poo off the property weekly- had formerly been spreading it but we’ve run out of room. We do not have a loader or anything like that. So we are talking hand shoveling/forking into containers that we can transport in horse trailer to the community horse poo pile. I don’t want to do muck buckets because they don’t hold much and don’t have a lid. I’m thinking maybe a wheeled garbage container with lid would work- will just have to find a size that would not be too heavy when full. And low enough to dump the poo into without too much effort.

Anyone else in a similar situation? What is your poop removal technique?

[atlatl]

Build an enclosure for whatever container you plan to use that will secure it in one place. Then build a ramp up to the top so you can easily dump into the container.

[Hermein]

I think I’ll be facing the same thing when we move, only I have 6 horses. I think I’ll probably drag in the summertime until they tell me I can’t–although it largely depends on the weather. What I do now when it isn’t hot, and may continue to do, is bag it up as I clean pens, use what I can for fertilizer and send the rest to the manure dump.

Somebody who posts here (?), an Aussie, iirc, said she bagged hers and set it out by her driveway with a sign saying: “Manure, $1 a bag”.

A manure entrepreneur.

[Mukluk]

I don’t think anyone around here is going to want horse poop. There is too much supply and probably no demand!!!

[Calamber]

Buy a small dump trailer, wheel the daily removal up ramp or pull the trailer into a hillside to dump into trailer. No way would I want to fork it in, lift it up and then have to lift it down to the ground to wheel it to the community poo pile. Save your back!

[maunder]

A friend of mine used a small dumpster for her small farm. When it was full she’d call and it would be picked up and replaced with another. Not sure that would work for the weekly removal criteria, but it did have a lid.

[Calamber]

Very expensive to have a dumpster removed every week, however, do you have yard waster removal once a week or every other? Can you do that, will the county accept it?

[Mukluk]

[QUOTE=Calamber;8254192]
Very expensive to have a dumpster removed every week, however, do you have yard waster removal once a week or every other? Can you do that, will the county accept it?[/QUOTE]

Out here you have to take all your garbage to the dump. So unfortunately that is not an option.

[Mukluk]

Thanks for the feedback. I looked at the wheeled plastic garbage bins at home depot which come in 50 and 32 gallon sizes. I just want to make sure that whatever it is it has a lid in an attempt to make life rougher for the flies.

[enjoytheride]

Someone near my barn wanted poop so they brought over a small flat bed trailer (probably 12 feet long?) and we just pushed the poop up it and dumped. It was pretty easy.

[moving_to_dc]

[QUOTE=Mukluk;8253888]
We live in a community where we are required to remove horse poo off the property weekly- had formerly been spreading it but we’ve run out of room. We do not have a loader or anything like that. So we are talking hand shoveling/forking into containers that we can transport in horse trailer to the community horse poo pile. I don’t want to do muck buckets because they don’t hold much and don’t have a lid. I’m thinking maybe a wheeled garbage container with lid would work- will just have to find a size that would not be too heavy when full. And low enough to dump the poo into without too much effort.

Anyone else in a similar situation? What is your poop removal technique?[/QUOTE]

Does the highlighted quote mean you will also have to dump the containers onto the community poo pile? If so, you may want to reconsider a wheeled 32/50 gal trash bin. It will be uber heavy when full and pretty impossible to dump without a lot of grunting and groaning and strain on your back…

Now if the community poo pile has a ramp that you can wheel it up to dump it onto the pile, then that would make it a lot easier to dump the contents out. Just be sure to keep a hold of the container so it doesn’t fall into the pile!

[ElementFarm]

what do the other horseowners in the community do?
I would think a wheeled trashcan would be very difficult to dump (even with a ramp to the community pile) and some would get stuck in the bottom, and how do you keep the whole thing from falling into the pile?

Can you go in partnership with someone who already has a good system? Or would someone want to share halfsies in a dump trailer with you?

[Vindicated]

So, what exactly are your manure options?
You cannot compost on your own land? Or you cannot compost because you don’t have a tractor?

I don’t have a tractor either and my pile is hardly out of control.
I bed with the pellets and throw away very little bedding.

[Laurierace]

I always had a dumpster. You can either build a ramp to it or use muck baskets and dump them in by hand.

[Badger]

Trash cans are awfully heavy to move and dump when filled with manure. We collect our manure into muck buckets, and use Brute garbage can lids that fit pretty darn well on top of them, and even allow stacking. It’s not a perfect fit, but works quite well. Fairweather found some lids at Lowe’s or Home Depot that are designed for muck tubs, but I have never seen those or been able to find them by googling. You might send her a PM and see if she can tell you exactly what to look for. If you muck into muck buckets and then cover them with lids, then you can transport the muck buckets down to the community manure dump as needed, and not have to go every day as you aren’t creating a fly problem.

We spread ours on our land with the Newer Spreader, but I’d also go with this system if I needed to transport manure off-site.

This looks like what we have: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002NC3K/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687562&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00RD9F53S&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1R8EPVNNMG734H9YE7WQ

[WildandWickedWarmblo]

Do you have a local manure removal agency? In Aiken, there are companies who come take manure from a container you can keep on your property. cost is not too bad. And once company comes daily to clean stalls for $5 per stall which includes removal of manure from your property to the neighborhood manure facility.

[Calamber]

She said her community requires that she remove it every week, so dumpsters are not an option and I really would not suggest you try and heft a 50 or 32 gal worth of manure onto a pile. Might a motorized wheelbarrow work for you?

[tallyho392]

the big brown paper bags used for yard refuse…I have used those when in a pinch because of weather where I couldn’t get the tractor back to the poop pile, or when tractor was broken…that way,you can just toss the entire bag,not have to worry about dumping and cleaning out poop containers…course, you have to be careful how full you make them…but even if you put the bag INTO a trash can, it still makes it neater,cleaner for dumping

[poltroon]

[QUOTE=Mukluk;8254234]
Out here you have to take all your garbage to the dump. So unfortunately that is not an option.[/QUOTE]

Even when that’s the case, you can usually still get a dumpster delivered and removed. It may not be affordable, of course.

I think your lidded trash cans will be hard to fill and too heavy when full.

Can you compost in a couple of plastic compost containers? Even if they don’t hold it all, anything you don’t have to haul off may help.

Else I’d seriously consider getting a dedicated small utility trailer, building some appropriate box on top, and using that on weekly or whatever runs that you have to make. Not cheap but possibly your best option.

[Jarpur]

Neighbor with two horses put the manure in a small flatbed trailer with plywood sides and periodically ran it out to a local orchard.