Horse waste disposal

Grassman

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Location
Derbyshire
Putting horse muck in a hedge bottom will kill the hedge. I have a few neighbours who pick it off the fields and put it in the hedgebottom and now there are dead hedges.
But if its their hedge then not a lot you can do. If its your hedge ask them nicely to stop.
 
Location
southwest
James I don’t get the bluntness of your response. I placed a genuine question for genuine advise. I have had the place a long time so has my neighbour. I have said it as it is I have not exaggerated by complaining of muck heap dumped outside my door. I tried to keep my original post was clear and factual hoping to get some factual advise to have in my back pocket should it be needed when I ask my neighbour to kindly put it away from my barn which is only 5m away. I’m not in dispute with my neighbour and want to keep it that way.
just hoped someone of the farming community might share the facts hood or bad.

My response is based on the pictures, which basically show a few forks of shyte at the base of a hedge/around some trees on you neighbours property (did you ask permission to go onto his property to take pictures to use against him?)
Neighbour has done nothing wrong, he isn't stockpiling years and years of animal dung, he's just moving it from the grazing area.. But you go to the effort of finding and joining a forum in the hope that someone will give you some ammunition to use against a person, who it seems to me, is just trying to manage his land a bit. Why didn't you spend that time just talking to the guy? Possibly because you hoped to dredge up some ancient rural bylaw so you could confront him and force him to desist from irritating you.

As has been asked, have you got nothing else to worry about?

It's bad enough when urban dwellers buy a little house in the Country and then moan about what the farmers do. When it's another landowner moaning about normal rural practices (and trying to involve others in their petty arguments) it really would try the patience of a Saint


PS I'd love to hear what the neighbour has to say
 

Dry Rot

Member
Livestock Farmer
Unfortunately, with the countryside you sometimes get neighbours like that!

I'd suggest quietly, politely, and unemotionally reporting it to Environmental Health and a councillor. Make sure you mention the smell and the flies. If your neighbour can't see the problem, probably not a good idea to approach him directly. I wouldn't bother responding to negative posts on a forum either, the poster probably does exactly the same thing at home.

I have a machine to pick up poo which is being sold next week. I find I don't need it. My fields are harrowed and rested which is much more horse and environment friendly as worm eggs are killed by sunlight and by frost and wetting and drying.
 

Forkdriver

Member
Livestock Farmer
What is the use that the OP has for the land as if it is not agriculture he may need planning consent that his neighbour could object.
 

Humble Village Farmer

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
Essex
Sadly this sort of behaviour is common among the horse fraternity. I suspect there is little you can do about it without huge expense, with little prospect of a good resolution.
I would have a quiet polite word with your neighbour , but I agree it is not acceptable
I've seen it slung into ditches before. It's just ignorance I'm afraid.
 

Classichay

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
The moon
Don’t take this the wrong way your probably dealing with a mega ‘Karen’ who won’t be told how to manage her field. Even if she just sticks it in a heap there’s nothing wrong with that but it needs to be moved once a year. And the hair isn’t huge amounts ( as someone who breeds shires) it isn’t going to surmount to a lot. Not sure what the end game of this thread is, other than your taking photos of shite thrown under a hedge? A lot of folk on here make their money from the horse fraternity as do I, so there’s a tad more empathy to their madness.

this is the heap from the last 6 months from ours.... so be very glad it isn’t that big.
 

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puppet

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
Hair and shavings is hardly an environmental catastrophe. Before heading to the Supreme Court over some horse muck, have you actually asked if they will dump it a bit further from your shed? Do they realise you spend so much time a short distance from it?
You say it isn't compost but it will be given time.
 
Just say something like “I’ll burn your house down if you keep dumping your horse shite there, you pony patting c*ck wobble”. One way or other it will move the discussion forwards ......
I think we need to assess the jodphur situation before making hasty comments we might regret later. Photos might help us decide.

Mrs Fred had me construct a simple E shaped 2 bay muck heap out of sleepers so one side is composting while the other is filling, and told the local allotment holders to help themselves once a bay was first filled. They are constantly keeping it emptied now and we receive loads of produce in return as a thank-you. I was surprised how well it composts as it is largely wood shavings.
 

Flatlander

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
Just ask nicely the first time if they could store it else where. Even offer to move the pile if they don’t have 5he equipment to clean it up if you do. Keep in mind it’s not on your property and even the other side of a field your still going to smell it. Any time joe public infiltrate the countryside issues will surface. I had a horsey neighbour kindly dump sh!t,shavings and the contents of countless fire pits which were full of pallet nails in my field. Only noticed it spreading fertilizer this spring. Ended up asking twice fir them to clean up the crap they had dumped and it never happened. Scooped it with my telehandler and carefully placed it on their driveway. He got kinda pee'd then after he called to bitch about it I asked for his mailing address so I could send the cleanup bill,haven’t heard from him since but the pile is still on his driveway and he parks on the road.
 

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