Reducing Unpleasant Smells on Horse Farms
Alayne Blickle
November 6, 2025
Prevent odors with smart manure, mud, and urine management, plus natural fixes such as composting, footing, and vegetative buffers.
Prevent odors with smart manure, mud, and urine management, plus natural fixes such as composting, footing, and vegetative buffers.
These 5 steps can help you prevent and eliminate odors on your farm and create a cleaner space for your horses.
Find out how to manage and remove horse waste from your farm in a safe and effective way.
Cultivating healthy soil in your horse’s pastures will help reduce weeds and improve pasture quality. These 4 tips can help you achieve healthy soil on your horse property.
Summer sores can worsen rapidly without prompt treatment. Find out how to prevent these lesions and explore methods veterinarians use to address them.
Cultivating healthy pastures on your horse farm can help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Here’s how.
Learn what you can do to reduce the carbon footprint of your horse farm.
These practices will help minimize odors on your farm to keep you, your horses, and your neighbors healthy and happy.
Implementing these practices will benefit you, your horse, your property, and your neighborhood.
A green energy source might one day come from the big brown pile behind your barn.
Each horse has his own individual needs when it comes to parasite control. But when you’re responsible for deworming a number of horses on one property, how do you meet each one’s needs?
Before you bring a horse home, there’s a host of things to prepare and much to consider. Our sources share their recommendations for owners making the transition to at-home horse care.
Have you walked into a barn and smelled a pungent, burning odor? That’s ammonia, and it’s hurting your horse.
Do horse feeds made of products treated with herbicides and pesticides create contaminated compost that threatens the health of future gardens? Can deworming your horses then composting their manure lead to drug residue in your pile? Find out how to make the most of your horse’s manure.
Did you know May 29 is Learn About Composting Day? Get a head start with some of our top composting, manure management, and eco-friendly farm management resources available for free on TheHorse.com.
When you’re constructing a horse farm and have limited land, design and layout are critical to maximizing your time and resources. Download this free report for tips on how to design a functional farm on what land you have.
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