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Hi Sharon,

For a while I was able to lease a summer pasture that was about 3 acres. 
It was mostly on a hillside (which is why the owner didn't allow horses on 
it in the rainy season).  I had 2 horses there from about Apr-Oct for over 
3 years running.  I never hauled off anything.  Horse apples dry out pretty 
quickly and then pulverize becoming part of the soil.  I don't know the 
number of horses/acre that would result in so much feces that it needed to 
be hauled away.  The horse pooples out in the field just disappear after a 
while.

BTW, if your horse(s) are neat and tidy and poop in just one place, you can 
collect it periodically and park it somewhere else to let it age.  After 
about 8 months it is very good fertilizer.  I am big on recycling, not 
because of the environment but because it saves me money.

The bottom line is that the stuff breaks down and if scattered, like being 
dropped all over the place, breaks down really fast.  It won't build up but 
it will improve the soil.  One horse on 7 acres for 3 seasons?  Don't worry 
about it. :)

Sharon Levasseur wrote:
> We have 7 acres, of which we would like to fence off about 1 acre in the woods
> and 1 acre on the lawn.  For now anyway, there will only be one horse, and that
> one will be there only 3 seasons AT MOST.
>
> Our house is a modern and "dressy" style, our driveway is paved, and in various
> other ways we are NOT set up like a mini farm.  I cannot figure out what we're
> going to do with the manure!  There isn't anywhere I can think of where a
> manure pile would be hidden from view and yet accessible by any sort of vehicle
> that would be able to haul manure away.  I know it'll probably only be one horse
> (at least for now) but we all know IT ADDS UP!!


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