HELP! Need to get rid of horse manure (Michigan)

Unless your garden is tiny, you can use all of it. Spread it on the fields, or fill up empty feed sacks with it and sell them for $2 a piece.

But I promise you if you burn it that is a mistake you will only ever make once.
The smell is ... memorable ... the smoke is thick and black and it will smolder forever. Unless you are insanely rural, it will earn you a visit from the fire dept. When I say it will smolder forever, I mean that months later you will kick that pile and have flames come up.
It might take some doing to get it burning, but once it does, the only way to stop it is to spread it out with a tractor while a couple of people hose it to sloppy wetness. It is a huge, hard job, a huge mess and again, the smell is ... memorable.

A manure pile burning is an accident and an emergency. I can't imagine anyone sane doing it on purpose.

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Oh Milford OK I'm not familiar with that town but it sounds plenty rural enough that it shouldnt be hard to get rid of a pile of manure. I agree with other people that its probably just a timing issue. Here we spread manure when the ground is frozen solid and when its dried out some in late spring but right about now is probably too muddy. What you need to make that pile not stink is lots of carbon like fallen leaves. Check with municipalities that collect them in the fall they're often looking for places to dump them.

Yes, try Craigslist.

FWIW, around here, they are selling HM, and getting a pretty penny out of it.

If it's hot it means the inside is decomposing into compost. You should stir it up to get the outside material to compost too. She can do this with the tractor and loader. When it's all composted, it looks like black dirt and should sell well.

Chatted with Forerunner, the expert in composting, and he said it would only take 6 months of sitting, so that it could go through it's heat cycle, before it would be ready. Just wanted to share....

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I used to muck stalls in a barn where peatmoss was the bedding, i used to take semi composted manure(fall/winter stuff), spread it and grow the most amazing tomatoes without any trace of burn.. that stuff was black gold!

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Boy wish I could get some!

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Let me qualify that by clarifying that the material would need to be balanced, i.e. manure and bedding, mixed, and of proper moisture.....not too wet, definitely not dry. If you pile it, and it begins to heat in a few days, it's good to go.
Wait until the heat cycle is finished and then spread the material with enthusiasm.

ETA...... after reading the thread, I see there is a question of odor prevention.....

Barring monsoon conditions, a balanced pile (bedding and manure and not pure manure) will stabilize and should not emit any overt odor after a few days piled, unless it be disturbed.
If odor persists, a light layer of sawdust thrown over the pile, say..... 2-4 inches, will eliminate all odor and prevent nitrogen loss, as wel as aid in retaining heat during composting in colder weather.

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I cant wrap my head around anyone getting rid of manure. Take it all and grow some food

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The idea is foreign to me too but I guess sometimes you can have too much of a good thing at least if you dont have enough land to use it all.

I agree, but she and her husband do not farm. They are well off, and like their store-bought food.

I see you are in michigan - want some manure????

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That's what I thought too. I have a neighbor who asks for some every year and comes and loads up a pickup worth herself. Every time she gets it I think of where that little bit could have gone on my place! I have lots of manure too and still think about keeping it all.

I have hauled manure away for people. I one time drove my loader tractor about 10 miles to someone's place who had manure, used it to load 12 manure spreader loads, hauled the manure spreader back anf forth wiht my pickup, and spread it with my dads tractor.

My neighbor gave me 50 manure spreader loads last year

Im near Traverse.

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There waiting for there EBT account deposit.
jim

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Is the manure still available?

I am interested in getting a load of horse manure. Is the manure still available?

Oh yes, it's still available! Let me say that it's not completely broke down, and I can take pictures if you need that.....

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She is not to far from Ann Arbor, which has a large population interested in growing organic. If she still has it, list on Craigslist in Ann Arbor under Free.
If she is willing to load it that is a huge plus, definitely charge for hauling, alot of people would take it for fill.

Why can't I have a little old lady neighbor who would load up horse manure for me for free and send me home with truck loads of it? *sobss*

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It's listed on Craigslist and Freecycle.....fingers crossed...

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