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Originally Posted by
Colin
I'm not a 100% sure, but I do know that the stables my eldest daughter used to go to got alot of warning letters from the council about the state of there local bridleway.
Originally Posted by
wishbone
Councils are very good at warning letters, without them actually checking, all someone has to do is complain, I mean we've all seen threads about people getting letter from councils about their dogs barking, when they haven't.
Whether they could actually do anything about it is a totally different matter.
It's a bridleway, the clues in the name, they'd have to proove all the poop came from the stables themselves as I'm sure other horses would use the way.
Exactly , how do the council know said "muck" is coming from said horse???? of said yard??
Originally Posted by
Helena54
I haven't laughed so much in years after reading this thread, what with Becky and her jet wash, the nappy bags, poor Chris on his bike and by the time I got to the two horses with the cart attached to carry the poo, well I just fell off my chair!!!!!
I would never have dreamed in a million years that it would have become necessary to clean up after your horse whilst out on a ride! My horse would poo for England when out for 4 or 5 hours at a time, there just wouldn't be a bag big enough to cart that lot back to the stables and dump it on the muckheap, and there's no way I would have done it either! I live in a village where we have 2 racing yards, a string of 60 in each, can you imagine the amount of horse poo I come across on a daily basis, and like Becky said, it
gets flattened in no time, hopefully before Georgie eats some too! As for clearing up on a bridleway, for a start, how would you know who is responsible? Loads of horse riders from miles around would use the same bridleway.
Maybe we should get off and stick a flag in it which the council has kindly provided us with to identify which is our horse's poo, so when we get back we have to do the 10 mile trip again on foot with the wheelbarrow poo picking all the ones with our flag in them?? Oh c'mon this is ridiculous, isn't it? Isn't it??!!!
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And I wonder how many wheelbarrow pushers will also get flattened , stopping on a busy road on blind bends... with their shovel trying to pick the muck up before another motorist comes flying down the road!!
Love your idea of flagging it , to be recognised later
Originally Posted by
Helena54
Horses are vegetarians, their poo doesn't cause any nasty bacteria, I would eat it myself!
I used to pick it up with bare hands out of the stable, but I'd never do that with dog poo!!!
Keep this thread going please, I'm in stitches here!!!!
same here, much easier to muck a stable out with your hands... specailly when you have a dirty so and so, who likes to bury their muck,
Originally Posted by
wishbone
If it's on the pavement that's different as they shouldn't be on the pavement in the first place.But roads and country lanes etc yes.
Exactly, no excuse for them to be on pavements.
Originally Posted by
wishbone
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Can I join the 'eaten my lunch with horsey hands' club please as many a time we went to the chippy with filthy hands.
I even remember filling a can of coke with brown water from the muck heap and the person who drank it lived to tell the tale. Mind you she never pinched our coke from the tack room again!
Its a b**ger to get from under your finger nails
Also reminds me , my daughter and her stable friends(when they where kids) used to go to the butchers at lunch for a filled baguette ( the butcher used to make them especially for them)
not a washed pair of hands between them... they would sit and eat their lunches, in the stables on the straw/shavings, with their horses, peeing/pooing, around them, the girls would be covered in in the stuff... on their hands, in their clothes...
They have all grown up in to healthy adults... never did any of them any harm.
Apart from the very indignant Australian teacher who came to teach at the yard for a while, now she had a problem with "muck" only I might add after my daughters little monkey of a pony, pulled her through the biggest patch of it, face down in the stuff....
She never forgave him....I wonder why!! ( the teacher that is, not my daughter)