Re: Re: manure @ Oroville

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

I admit I have no knowledge of Florida. If you can truly get up the next
morning and not find manure on the ground, then OK. I assume that Floridians
never remove manure from paddocks - the birds get to it first and there is
never more a couple of recent piles in the paddock. But I can tell you that
I have manure in a pasture that hasn't seen a horse in 2 months. That is
western Washington at a elevation of 400 feet. At high elevations, the
decomposition cycle can be years. And  it is a problem in most parts of the
country. And the problem includes hay as well as well as manure.

But the original poster said there were bags left for folks to put their
manure and hay into it, and they did not. In other words, they ignored a
polite request. Inconsiderate at best.

Manure is probably the biggest complaint land managers receive about horse
use, and those complaints put pressure on them to kick us out.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


----- Original Message -----
From: <Howard4567@aol.com>
>
> This comparison to lazy slobs leaving paper trash is absurd.  Maybe it's
> different down here in the South, but the birds, especially the ducks,
will
> eat the manure within hours after all the horses leave.  At the last ride
I
> attended, in Georgia, the ducks would sneak up behind Dance Line and
gobble
> his manure down quicker than you would believe possible.
>
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