Basic Manure Management Equipment for Horse Properties
- Posted by Alayne Blickle
- Topics: Blogs, Smart Horse Keeping
If you’re a novice horse owner or new to horse keeping on your own property, you might feel a little overwhelmed by the thought of acquiring all the equipment you think you’ll need to manage your property. Fortunately, you can actually do a good job of land management without going overboard on expensive new equipment. In the next couple of blogs I’ll go over some basic, realistic equipment considerations for a small acreage horse places. I’ll start with manure management equipment and will go on to pasture equipment. I’ll finish with ideas on alternatives to buying new.
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Alayne Blickle
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re: Basic Manure Management Equipment for Horse Properties
I’ve been a one man band for 20 years. I use a many-tined metal fork, same one, the whole time. I got rid of the stalls and filled my barn with gravel and it cleans like kitty litter. The horses prefer to stand on it. All are transitioned. I abandoned
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My horses go in and out of their stalls into a drylot whenever they want. Stalls and drylot get cleaned daily. The stall floors are concrete with stall mats and shavings on top. The horses are so much healthier and happier when they have the opportunit
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Our horses spend most of their time outside, but when we clean their stalls we dump the manure and shavings in the turnout. We harrow the turnout when the weather turns nice, and we never have to worry about the smell, plus the turnout looks really nic
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I don’t use lime in that fashion, Frederick, but have worked in stables that have packed lime as the stable flooring. Twice daily stable cleaning is better than lime – its not just the odour that can be problematic, but also the fumes, which can
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anyone dust down the floor of the stall with lime, to absorb urine and kill germs before bedding down?
re: Basic Manure Management Equipment for Horse Properties
Don’t discount metal manure forks. Choose a fork according to what your bedding is. I use chopped newspaper and a plastic fork will not peirce the wet paper well. I need the metal fork and foot pressure. You might also consider
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Thank you very much. I have both of these pieces of equipment and find them to be very valuable. The fork was a bit pricy but it has a lifetime guarante.
The wheelbarrel was also pricey but both were worth every penny and make our job so much ea