Composting Horse Manure - The Top 10 Benefits
Composting horse manure has many benefits, both as a source of fertilizer for food crop and maintaining a healthy stable environment for your horses. Following are 10 advantages that composting horse manure can provide to your farm or stables.
1. Control fly problems
Stables and farms with sundry animal droppings are great fly breeding grounds. If you compost horse manure, you will not only minimize the number of flies in your area, you can also kill any new larvae by working to reach a high temperature in your pile.
2. Minimize the likelihood of farm diseases
When you get rid of manure by putting it in grazing field, you increase the likelihood of your animals catching diseases from the microorganisms that thrive in manure. If some of your farm manure works its way into your food crop, even the people in your household may catch these diseases. Composting horse manure is, therefore, the safest option.
3. Minimize farm smell
Correct composting will be odor-free. What's more, you also lessen the volume of un-composted manure in your farm; or if you keep horse stables, you can eliminate any stench altogether.
4. Make your grounds neater
Manure scattered all over a farm is very unsightly. Your composting is not only practical for increased crop productivity it also does a lot to help aesthetics (and smell!).
5. Cut back on manure volume
Did you know that composting will decrease your total manure bulk and weight by half its original amount? You can actually decrease that unsightly heap by at least 40%, or as much as 60%, than if you leave it un-composted!
6. Cut back on weeds
Composting horse manure allows you to achieve temperatures so high as to prevent weeds from sprouting anew.
7. Earn more dollars
You have access to a bigger market for compost sales rather than one for manure sales. Horse manure compost is a big seller among landscape contractors and organic vegetable growers, among other buyers.
8. Control grazing
Did you know that animals in fields with horse manure compost graze evenly as opposed to those in fields where fresh manure is strewn? Un-decomposed manure limits grazing to only the areas where manure is thinnest.
9. Make your soil healthier
Composting horse manure and adding it to your soil will improve its crop-growing quality and water-bearing capacity.
10. Protect your water source
When you control your manure volume and its location, you also protect your water source from bacterial contamination. Composting horse manure makes it unlikely that any of it will wash out into your water source.
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