Free horse product in a bag.

[bagpussctc]

Whilst out in the Peak District, this made for a smile.
Horse add by rebalrid, on Flickr

[Cyril Haearn]

In German this excellent compost is called 'Pfedeaepfeln', horse apples

[661-Pete]

I could, if I wanted to, often get some for free, on the bridle path near our house - provided I bring along a wheelbarrow (preferable to a bag) and a spade. But I don't: I just let it lie for others to collect - if they so wish . After all we have plenty of garden compost.

Q: to whom does horse manure lying on a public path, actually belong? The owner of the horse? The owner of the land crossed by the path? The local authority? Or finders keepers?

[661-Pete]

In German this excellent compost is called 'Pfedeaepfeln', horse apples

Shouldn't that be Pferdeaepfeln (Pferdeäpfeln)? And my German is a lot worse than yours .

[Cyril Haearn]

It belongs to the horse of course

[fausto copy]

Acquaintances of ours stopped putting their horse manure out for free, as no-one ever returned the bags.
I do like the suggestion of paying by carrot and apple pay though.

[Cyril Haearn]

Yes, one donates carrots and apples, and collects them in another form a few weeks later
I cycle by a soup factory on the way to work, in the morning it gets deliveries of vegetables, during the day they are cooked, in the evening tins of soup go into the lejostic-chain

[Vorpal]

I collected some horse manure from a colleague earlier in the year. I took my own bags with.

It's helping my potatoes grow.

[Cyril Haearn]

Horses are very careful to choose good grass because they cannae be sick, there is a one-way valve preventing the contents of the stomach coming back up

What about manure from other animals, cows or dogs? My observations suggest that cow manure is quite different from horse manure, but cows eat mostly grass too, difference must be that they digest it twice

[pete75]

Horses are very careful to choose good grass because they cannae be sick, there is a one-way valve preventing the contents of the stomach coming back up

What about manure from other animals, cows or dogs? My observations suggest that cow manure is quite different from horse manure, but cows eat mostly grass too, difference must be that they digest it twice

Crew yard muck from cattle was the major source of fertiliser for the land before nitrates started being used a lot. A lot more of it came from bullocks than cows though.

Horse muck really needs composting to get the best results.

[fausto copy]

We had a trailer load of well-rotted (at least three years) cow manure / straw mix last year and mulched most of the raised veg. beds with it. Can't say it was any improvement over stuff from my three garden compost bins, but it did bulk the soil up somewhat.

When I were a lad, there was a small pig farm that closed down (they built a church on it ) and my Grandad built a barrow from pram wheels, handle and several bits of timber.
It took us days to transport all the old manure and soil from the site, up the steep hill back to our garden.
I reckon we had the best flowers in town after that.

[Cugel]

I could, if I wanted to, often get some for free, on the bridle path near our house - provided I bring along a wheelbarrow (preferable to a bag) and a spade. But I don't: I just let it lie for others to collect - if they so wish . After all we have plenty of garden compost.

Q: to whom does horse manure lying on a public path, actually belong? The owner of the horse? The owner of the land crossed by the path? The local authority? Or finders keepers?

Does everything have to have an owner?

Cugel

[cycleruk]

If it's on a path why aren't horse owners made to pick up the poo as per dog owners ?

[Cyril Haearn]

Get it while it's hot

One should not decline something free, nor complain about it, or 'one shouldnae look a gift horse in the mouth'

[jgurney]

Does everything have to have an owner

English law presumes so, historically in order to keep the peace. Property with no owner was seen as a menace to the peace as it led to fights between those trying to gain de facto possession of it.