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How To Build Soil by Composting Horse Manure
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2024
- This episode is about composting horse manure. I show you how to tell if your manure is done composting and how to make it into the best compost you have ever seen.
Great video, easy to follow and manage the way you have it set up, excellent follow through and goody ingredients that are added.
The most informative video on this subject I have ever seen. Thank you so much. An excellent teacher. I have learnt more in the last 18.30 mins than all the other hours I've spent on youtube.
Very interesting.Def going to give it a try. LOVE The camera falling,added a lil humor to it!
Good video.
As you show, the key is to keep turning it every few days so it all gets heated up and you kill the weed seeds. There are a lot of weed seeds in horse manure. Their digestive process does not kill the weed seeds as well as a cow's manure, but one advantage of that is horse manure is higher in nutrients.
A good idea is to use a compost thermometer and turn the compost when it hits a certain temperature. That temperature may be 120 or 130 degrees. I forget what the ideal turning point is. You don't want to turn it too soon, or too late. Too soon and it won't heat up to the max to kill weed seeds, to late and the anaerobic action occurs, as you mentioned.
Cheers!
Autumn leaves (shredded) + horse manure + coffee grounds + kitchen scraps + grass clippings = awesome compost pile :-)
excellent way of simplifying
Got bears here in Ak so beside the scraps that all sounds like a most excellent idea
Can old horse manure dried out do
@@jakelowrison57 it can help. Id add water to it
Your Veterinarian is usually happy to run a fecal on your horse manure for you to see if your horse has worms. There's certainly no need to give them wormer if it's not needed. And, they can identify the worms they do have and worm only for those type of worms. It's not costly, healthier for your horse and definitely healthier for your compost.
Thanks for the information!
Thanks for the informative video Brian, and thanks for recommending The Rodale Book of Composting as well. Now I understand your use of perforated pipes better!
Love all the information thank you so much
This is exactly what i was looking for starting my vegetable garden
Seek for more tips
Great job
Thanks again
I compost with horse manure + leaves for carbon using a vertical wire frame holding around 9 cut ft. Temperatures over 131 for three or four days is basic as it will kill off seeds etc but getting to high over 170 can be a negative. Commercial compost companies usually do 131 for 15 days I have heard. There is also a difference between bedding and pure manure as bedding usually has wood or hay added which impacts the carbon level. Usually I mix both together if I have them but with just pure manure I always add leaf wood products have a 500 to 1 carbon print vs leaves 80 to one or hay, so understand your carbon count . After it cools I put in piles and cover for 6 months to a year and add compost worms but I don't overdo the worms but a herd of worms working the cold piles is helpful and many find they're way into the beds as you distribute the compost.
Great video brother. I own a 27 acre horse facility and plan to start using the manure for my pastures.
Great video mate. Nice set up you've got there! I prefer horse to cow muck too.
I'm getting excited, i'm about to go pick up a truckload of horse manure for my compost collection xD
Just came over to say that it's funny that you have both the question AND the answer in the title already.
Title says it all. You could have taken the day off. :)
Great info, thanks! From Nova Scotia
Excellent video. I live not far away in the Baldwin area and I'm just getting started. I like the bins and sifter you built. Another project though, ugh :)
Sir, my compost pile is smoking now for a few weeks! thanks a lot!
Good shit man, you're doing it right.
It is good shit!
Thank you for a very informative video. Wondering if the worms horses might have (strongyles, etc) will be 'cooked' in the composting process? I have a composting thermometer but haven't been able to get my 2 piles over 140 degrees. Really is a learning and sometimes frustrating experience.
Great video, thanks! How many horses do you have, how many compost piles do you maintain, and what is the approximate size of your piles (4’x4’?)? We live in Los Angeles, so do not have a lot of room, but we are on a lot zoned for horses and do have a barn. I’m trying to plan out the garden, compost piles, and fruit trees. All the people I know around here pay for manure pickup, but I would like to avoid that.
wonderful video - thanks for posting!
BTW how are the mice doing?
Hey thank you for your response. I actually got off here right after sending it and just checked now and realized you responded the same day. Yes, I used stuff in garden pots last year but then I forgot to mention I take care of a city garden and have to ask neighbours to share their water taps to water it. Two years ago, I had added a lot of manure and clay soil and had tomatoes planted. I only managed to water it every few days. The water would run off the top so I didn't think there was much water retention but the tomato plant seemed happy. So did all the grass that started growing out of the poo....so maybe let it heat more first before planting to prevent that? Anyway, I am going to try growing a bunch of stuff now in spring following your method and advice...as this is possibly the perfect answer to no water on site. I will try to remember to let you know how it worked out. Thank you again!
Yes, the heat in the pile is useful for killing any grass and weed seeds. I'm glad to hear of your projects. I wish you great success in your garden!
Thanks for posting
What is the purpose of the PVC pipe and what ratio earth:compost do you use, or do you plant directly into the compost as if it were soil?
Cheers from Oz
If I missed it I apologize but I don't remember you mentioning the size and placement of the tubes that give air within the pile. Thank you.
We used vented pipe when stacking hay bales under a roof. If the hay generated heat the breezes passing thro the barn would draw it off.
I just leave my Piles for a couple of years no turning horse manure hay and wood shavings. Never had a problem using it.
I do my hot compost and cook it til it is dead Then I sift it in and finish it off in my vermiculture beds. I have not noticed and worm death issues. I count my worms everyday and they are all there. :) I go 3/4 1st sift, 1/2 second and 1/4 out of my castings beds.
compost manure is very useful to kitchen garden on terrace
Do you have specific amounts of the grounds/kitchen scraps you add to the manure?
heat pipes? I would think they would be called more like areator pipes. I was under the impression the pvc pipes with the holes in them were used to bring air to the center of the pile. I have chicken and moo poo that I am composting with some decomposed wood from an old huge pile rotten lumber in the chicken pen that they have just decimated over the last year, and grass clippings and dead leaves. Hey, tnx for sharing I enjpyed your video on the subject.
The pipes are both for letting heat out and letting air in. The actinobacteria that generate all that heat can heat up a pile so hot that they kill themselves, interrupting the composting process. These pipes both let excess heat out and allow oxygen in, which the bacteria need to break down the organic matter in the pile. Glad you enjoyed the video! Good luck with your compost.
I just came across a few tons of horse manure and I live in Arizona and I want to know what to do to make it rich soil??
Hi great video very informative. I'm new to this, my brother has a horse and I know he feeds her both grain and straw. Am I still able to use it? Or is the grain that she's eating bad for compost?
You can certainly use that manure. It will work fine!
Hello,
Can this method work in the winter where temps are well below 0? Thanks!
Can you stack finished compost soil in a big pile for later use or does it break it down too much? My neighbor has two horses on my pasture and they produce a ton of manure and I’m going to start composting it. Thanks for the help!
Yes, you can put it in a pile for later use. It will only become more like topsoil the longer you leave it in the pile. Glad to hear you're getting some manure! Just make sure your neighbor doesn't use lots of worming meds on the horses before you use the manure. Good luck!
Am curious. I know this video is super old. However. I have a hay barn, a medium size room in there has a large amount of "old", "older" horse manure. I basically have to break it up to remove it and bring it out. My question is this. Can I use that? If so, how would I get it started? Do I need to add water? Do I need to add any other components to help it fire off?
I have seen homemade rotary sifting machines, they seem to work better and make the compost more workable. And have you thought of using a mini tiller to flip the piles?
That may be another solution, but I don't have a tiller and have no other reason to get one. The compost turns out just fine using this method. I'm sure your idea would get it done a bit faster, though.
Your welcome, I just can't help but think of me using my Mantis doe that. But ya, it would be a struggle to use it.
Lol. My brain always tries to think of a more efficient means of doing stuff.
Like putting perforated 1in" PVC pipes on the bottom, with a sock to keep manure out. Let's oxygen in and so on.
EcoTechnify
I'm curious, and just a thought. Have you ever taken some finished compost, dried it completely and then in a cup see how well it absorbs water?
I saw this other guy do something like that to demonstrate the water drainage and absorption between clay top soil and good top soil.
shexdensmore
I haven't done that, but I have checked the compost after a good long rain. It holds a lot of water. It keeps it too. Last summer, we had 30 days without rain and the stuff was nice and moist just an inchor two under the surface during the whole dry spell. Maybe I'll try the cup thing some time.
Thank you for a very interesting and informative video. I have a regular free supply of horse manure. Do you advise mixing cow or other manures with it to make compost??
That should work fine as long as you keep the C-N ratio at about 30-1.
@@brianmorsman4723 thank you all the best.
You spray water before cover cardboard ?
Thanks
????How often do you flip the pile? About how long until it's finished?
Hello, I was just wanting to know how long until you can use the horse manure compost? How long does it take to make compost from horse manure when its only a few days old? Can you use it on your garden when it stops heating? Thank you
It really just depends on the amount of elbow grease you want to put into it. If you turn the pile every three days, you'll get it done in about three or four weeks. If you turn it less often, the process takes longer. If you never turn the pile, you'll get ready-to-use compost in about three months.
Thanks for this video. Due to COVID-19 lockdown, I became interested in gardening and I was recently introduced to horse manure. Due to limited space, I have the manure stored in 2.5 gallon nursery posts. I water the manure every three days. This morning I discovered termites in some pots. The collection is three weeks old. How can I get rid of the termites?
by letting the heat go up I guess. how did it work out?
@@martinb2018 I'm not noticing any now. Perhaps the heat killed them. Thank you for replying.
@@yohlean7779 I'm not some expert but I believe that the termites might been doing a good job. whole being alive. and it night not be the greatest thing to be experts in killing. it's just an idea bot really against you. I'm a city dweller and are my way out from here and interested in compost related things
not really..
i can get a lot of horse manure but it has a lot of bedding in it. straw mostly. can i do the same type of composting that your video shows? or do it have to do it differently
Of course! Straw will just add some carbon to the pile. Simply try to add things so that the pile heats up to the appropriate temperature. After some experimentation, you will get a feel for what the right mix is.
Does it have pesticides from the hay?
new to composting. How much sawdust, leaves, etc do you add to your compost? I've heard different ratios.
thanks
Don't get stuck on the numbers. Just make a pile and adjust it if you need to. There is a precise ratio which I read in a composting book but in the end I just estimated and got a nice hot pile my first time. The key is to have several times more nitrogen or "green" than carbon or "brown" ingredients. Just make sure your pile is moist and at least 3'x3'x3' or it may not heat up.
Newbie here. Question: in our barn is an easy place to collect our horses manure. However, it’s mixed with their urine also. Does that matter? Or should I go hunting for piles in the pasture?
I'm no expert bit would say all shit ģoes
The urine will add nitrogen. Urea is a fertilizer, great for greening.
Hello, so I don't know if you are still replying to comments but I hope so. First off, I was wary about watching 18 minutes on horse compost but your video was so enjoyable to watch. So I have this place I pick up horse manure and actually I have found a lot of worms in their manure but the worms look different. Like more red than earthworms. However, I never thought of them to be a problem. Are they just earthworms or are they some other kind of worm? Because, I think I threw some remaining manure in my compost heap as well as a pumpkin and they loved the pumpkin. I think it's fine but I just want to know they are not a problem for other worms. Sorry if I am asking dumb questions. Also, the guy I get horse manure from mixes a lot of sawdust in with his manure. He lets people take the composted stuff because he feels that's the better stuff and that is what he should give them for helping him get rid of five horses mounds of poo. It seems like the stuff dries out fast but my plants last year (we had a really hot summer here in Vancouver, BC last year) barely ever seemed thirsty. The ones that were mixed in with manure that is...so your explanation of water rentention kind of explains this but then how come the soil felt bone dry to touch? So would you advise me to ask my horse poo dealer to give me non composted manure then? Also, thanks for not hurting that cute little field mouse. And thanks for videoing it too. I think I will get started earlier with horse poo collections this year. Unfortunately for me, I don't have a wago to loll it home with. I have to fill my Honda 1997 civic with as much of it as possible and doing many little trips. My son both loves me and hates me for this because I drag him along and he he loves their chicken that flies and walks over our car and the big goats that are bigger than him that are rescued goats and want to devour the plum trees. He is helpful but poor kid.....sigh. Anyways, I have gone off topic. Thank you for this video. I am going to see if the library has that book you mentioned.
+Monique Van de Plas , Those sound like red worms. They are fine. No threat to normal earthworms. Sounds like you have a great source of compost. I'd keep getting the composted stuff if I were you. The work is already done! Added sawdust helps make a better product by adding more carbon and balancing the C/N ratio closer to the 30/1 ideal.
Your soil may be dry on top, but there should be moisture under the surface. Plant roots can go deeper than they look in many cases. The plants are most likely getting at moisture deeper than you are feeling with your hands. I wouldn't worry too much about it. If your plants look happy then they most likely are happy.
+EcoTechnify I bought horse manure how can I use it for my pimento plants
+Bablu Khandakar just compost it for a while like the video shows and put it into your soil. It will work fine.
Can I plant tomatos, potatos and others just to composting manure, or should I mix it with soil from my garden? :) anyway big thanks for this video, I want keep some sheeps, and this is very helpfull for me :)
You can plant right into the compost if it is finished. Planting in actively working compost will kill your plants. I plant in 100% finished compost and have had great results.
EcoTechnify Thank you so much :) I hope chicken rabbit and sheep manure will be also that good as horse manure :) Are you composting also in winter? becouse now I have here 7 °C = 19.4 °F and I have pile of manure from rabbits and chickens there, but I dont know, if it is active :) perhaps I should flip it and see...I dont know...if there is a active bacterias, I dont want to stop coocing inside
Ondrej Biroš
Yes, I do compost in winter, but I generally just let the piles sit for the season. They will mostly be ready to use by the time spring comes around. The bacteria are much less active than in a hot pile, but the action is still going on. You can get a pile to heat up in winter if there is a higher concentration of nitrogen-containing material such as manure. I just let it be for the most part and get to turning them only when I feel like it, which is not very often in the depths of winter.
Your chicken and rabbit manure will be hotter (more N) than my horse manure, so you may have more heat in winter. Happy composting!
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Do the air pipes really help?
Simon Wallis the air pipes allow oxygen to penetrate deeper into the pile and allow heat to escape. This lets you turn the pile less often and keeps the aerobic bacteria happier.
Anyone has issue with herbicide from
Horse manure
Nevada is very dry, I do cover my manure with cardboard but we have to continuously add water. Ca I add pine needles into the rest of the compost mix? So do you use PVC pipe with holes to get the water down into the pile? Or just to let the gasses out?
You can add pine needles, but too much will increase the acidity of the compost. That is a good thing for growing blueberries, though. The PVC is for ventilation. It lets heat out and allows oxygen to get into the middle of the pile. It makes it so that I have to turn the pile less often.
what happened did you get hit by a tornado?
you have to run pipes in there from side to side...
Horse manure is high in phosphorus.
Just found out the horse when I've been getting my compoast has worms... Should I ditch the pile I have and start over? 😭
Horse where I've been getting my manure FOR my compoast pile***
It's worming medication that hurts the worms in your compost, not the worms in the horse. You should be fine if you know what the horse is being medicated with.
The horse currently isn't on any medication. Just to clarify, the worms I found in the manure were intestinal parasites, not fly larva. It was fresh, seconds after she "relieved" herself hehe.
+Austin Mahan Ok then, you should be fine. Those parasites won't harm your compost.
If your compost reaches at least 135 degrees for at least five days then the parasites will die. Weed seeds also die because of this. It is great stuff for these reasons.
ur hay can have a round up tyoe product in it as well if u source hay from a place that uses chemicals to keep weeds out of the hay ,it can basicaly poison ur garden ,,food for thought ,
just put this out so peeps can source from peeps who grow organic and not have a broud leaf weed killer chemical mixed in their hay wich can end up in their garden thru compost which defeats the purpose of composting i think
I don´t think weed killer is normally used on hay. Straw, on the other hand, is a by-product of wheat. And wheat, being a commercial product, will have a weed killer on it (Roundup). Having said that, straw is a great addition when composting horse manure. It brings in air and carbon.
I collected (8) five gallon buckets of horse manure and its been sitting covered in a pile for 4 months. Can it be used as is as soil now? or how can I make it useable?
thanks
Union Pete
+Peter Lowe It should be ready by now. The pile likely wasn't big enough to kill the weed seeds with heat, but the composting process should be near finished.
Can I mix horse manure with regular soil.
Of course! I think it's best to compost it first, though. Adding too much raw manure to your soil can burn your plants, and is less sanitary.
I was told that horse manure has a lot of salt in it and has to age for a long time so that the salt can leech out. Have you heard of this or experienced excessive salt where you use this?
I have heard nothing about salt content. I think that if there was salt in the manure that it would damage plant growth, but there's nothing like that going on that I can see.
"oh no" hahaha
Well it weir for us but there are ppl who think that horse shit is just shit. To a normal person, seeing a guy who puts his hands into horse shit , squize it and praise how cool it is , might be funny or disgusting.
Well, to me... Im sad that there are no horses in my neighborhood, cuz horse manure is not shit, it's THE SHIT ! xD
Also... I don't get this world
Ah, no gloves ???? 😀. I need to wear gloves- if my glove has a hole i have burned skin
One horse will produce about 9 tons of horse manure a year.
Hello Brian,
Great video.
I've been reading a lot into Hot composting and with the Berkeley method. (deepgreenpermaculture.com/diy-instructions/hot-compost-composting-in-18-days/)
As I do not have the same volume of horse manure as recommended on that website, my compost is taking a few more days to heat up, however I've been at turning the horse manure with straw every couple of days.
I notice that your volume of horse manure does not seem to be too high either. I'm guessing maximum of 2 feet high and a meter square spread out.
How long does it take for your horse manure to heat up and what sign do you use to let you know when to turn it?
I get a lot of white powdery stuff which is said to be fireblight, but it seems weird as my pile does not heat up more than 65 deg C.
Thanks!!
I just look at the steam and feel the pile with my hands for a sign that the pile is heating up. The smell should also be a pleasant, earthy smell, not rotten.
The white powdery stuff is a good thing in your compost. It is most likely a fungus or bacteria growing in the pile to break down the manure. A pile of the size you described should be ready in about three weeks with regular turning of the pile.
EcoTechnify wow! That fast?!!! Great to know. Gonna go turn my piles....!
Thanks for your tips but a *Big Shout Out to your Mom!* I am guessing you're in your late 20's early 30's? You have been educated to formulate your thoughts and speak to it very well. Now for the Kudos to Mom, your head is so well shaped that I know she did not let you lie on your back hour after hours, days, weeks or months on end. My sister and I had babies at the same time she would only let her little baby sleep on her back, I let my son sleep any which way he wanted whenever he wanted. Guess what? Her child has a flat head which somehow makes the child's head look contorted and my son now 20 yo has a shaved head during his "Hot Shot" firefighter tour this summer. Next a paramedics intern paid or not, then Fire and finally Rescue. And going to college for the educational aspect of his career and life. His head is round and I think his brain has and will function better because it's normal and has more room for the brain synopsis' to roam...a Mother's thought anyway, Kudos to your Mom too, you're already there : D
@ 0:35 cue Flash Gordon Scene: czcams.com/video/80sCD2p0W1Q/video.html
Sounds like someone is shooting at you.
We all just gonna ignore the gunshots in the background?
If you live in a rural area, that's pretty common.
Yes...it’s called living in the country and being free.
I dare you to eat it
After I compost it I feed it to my worms
Compost is not soil,!