Composting

We cleared out our manure pile last weekend. It had grown significantly over the winter months. It started in a corner on the back side of our barn and finally reached our back doorway. When the pile was rained on and snowed on and re-frozen and was rained on again for several weeks this winter, we were unable to manuover the wheelbarrow all the way to the back so we were forced to wheel out the back door and dump. Our landlord came out with his large tractor and scooped it away. We had the smaller tractor pulling the newer spreader around one pasture while he dumped piles in the larger pastures. We went back later and pulled the drag around to spread everything out. When we made it to the older compost at the back of the pile, the landlord took several scoops over to his garden. It was fine compost, manure and sawdust mix almost one year old. It was the GOOD stuff!!! We had one guy come out to get a load for his garden and Steven has promised some to a couple of his colleagues. Hopefully, everyone will see improvements in their gardens this spring and summer with our horse poop! Unfortunately, we are not putting in a garden this year because we are most likely moving again July 1st. But we have decided to plant some tomatoes and other veggies in planters so we can take them with us if we do move.

What do you guys do with your horse poop? Do you have a composting bin? Spread it all on your pastures? Give it away? Just pile it up? Tell me!