I think I got the name wrong. It’s Mill Creek
That’s a nice size.
Mine is 25 cubic feet, but works great for our little farm.
They aren’t cheap… but again… if you look at the expense in hauling away manure, and if you can make your own manure work as a healthy and useful pasture soil amendment … they pay for themselves sooner or later 
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we found we could use the normal trash pickup which is twice a week, we have several roller trash cans that we use, the trucks have hydraulic lifts that pick these cans up to dump.
Cost is nothing additional to the monthly trash pickup cost of $17.50 per month that we would be paying anyway
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Many areas are not so fortunate, and need to pay for an additional dumpster and extra pick up for their manure
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I have a 25 cubic foot ABI also and for my 2 horses it’s great. I pull it with my lawn tractor so I don’t have to take off and put back on my 7’ shredder on my big JD tractor.
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Having spread manure on my pastures and paddocks for MANY years, the benefits are beyond price. The soil is naturally clay, but the spreading has made the micro-organisms mix the bedding and clay, turning it into something the grass roots can grow deeply into. The roots reach wet soil, food, to make a REALLY healthy turf that stands up to big galloping horses, provides good grazing all season. We don’t feed hay in summer, they get enough to eat just grazing, plus their handful of daily grain.
We had 14 acres for 9 horses over a lot of years, which we spread bedding and fertilized to keep the grass and plants growing well. Mowed often, just high at 5-6 inches to encourage root growth. We now have and additional 11 acres we grow hay on, spread manure on over the winter months. In the 8 years since buying the hayfield, we can see a visible difference from the spreading. Grass is thick, soil is much more solid with the micro-organisms pulling down the organic matter into the clay. This helps open the soil for oxygen, water, fertilizer to get down into the dirt to feed the plant roots. I don’t get stuck on the slippery clay anymore! No bald spots, grass covers everything. It was in terrible shape when we purchased, no minerals in the soil test, just rough weeds growing there. Had not been amended for at least 30 years we lived across from it.
I can’t say enough good things about spreading bedding on your soil, it is SO beneficial for the land! Those micro-organisms work for you freely, improving things all the time. I can see disposing of manure with tiny plots of ground. But anyone with some acreage should strongly consider spreading their bedding on the home ground to reap the benefits. I do not compost because I need the organic volume we have with sawdust bedding to cover the entire place every year or two. Reducing the organic volume by composting would not provide enough to cover the fields as needed. Clay and sand ground really “eat up” any organic matter you put on it. Needs constant replenishing to provide needed nutrients and keep the small particles of soil apart for that good drainage needed by plant roots.
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