Composting horse, cow, and chicken manure is one of the best ways to maximize the value of your livestock, and, with a little planning, the process can be an enormous benefit to your livestock and ...

Horse manure has an ideal carbon to nitrogen ratio (C:N) for composting, decomposes rapidly, and produces high-quality compost.

Fresh horse and mule manure contains 0.38 pounds of nitrogen , 0.05 pounds of phosphorus , and 0.19 pounds of Potassium per pound. A 1,000-pound horse will create 50 pounds of manure every day ...

Make sure the manure is composted, or have a plan to compost it by adding carbonaceous material like straw, dried leaves or wood shavings to the manure, at a ratio of 30:1. Turn the composting ...

The state is making a big stink over a Loxahatchee Groves man’s mountains of horse manure. Walter Duque is facing up to 18 months in jail and $30,000 in fines for stockpiling about 20,000 cubic ...

Composting may be an environmentally friendly option that fits in the "circle of life" frame of mind and may be less emotional, two area researchers said. On Sept. 7 the House approved the Act ...

In fact, horse bedding is highly variable, which has a big impact on how well it works in your garden. It’s all about the proportions of shavings to manure in the load.

Test any manure you’d like to compost for herbicides first. (iStock) By dallasnews Administrator 9:42 PM on Apr 22, 2015 CDT LISTEN ...

The representatives of local politicians, San Diego County Department of Public Works and others were learning firsthand the ins and outs of composting horse manure — a lot of horse manure.

Horse manure recycling plans were flushed Wednesday amid concerns about growing food nearby in Palm Beach County. “We are the salad bowl of the nation. We don’t want to be the toilet bo… ...

Saving streams from the manure of more than 3,000 horses A new program addresses one of Snohomish County’s biggest water-quality concerns. by Julia-Grace Sanders Wednesday, January 30, 2019 6 ...

OCALA - There was no shortage of suggestions on Wednesday of what Marion County commissioners could do with the manure piling up on horse farms around the county. Yet the ultimate resolution of ...