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Hi, just wondering what people think. We live on a quiet unadopted cul-de-sac. We attract a number of horse riders who enjoy the quiet, relatively traffic free road but, whilst being pictuesque they do, often 'allow' their mounts to poo on the road. As I said this is a small road with few houses, so if left the poo gets spread along the road, under wheel arches etc. there is still some on the road from two weeks ago. One might say, just go out and clean it up, but I am a dog walker and am liable to a substantial fine if I don't clear up after her ( I understand that there is an issue with worms in dog poo)...... So should horse riders clear up after their horses? Maybe I am I just being grumpy? BTW there is a large deposit of the stuff on the PAVEMENT in the shopping area of my local small town.
As above, dogs = carnivores, horses = herbivores. Very different issues with their output.
Gardeners love it as it improves the quality of the soil. Scoop it up and stick it in sacks and then sell it. The previous owners of our house used to sell their horse emissions whereas we have the local gardeners club take it away.
Gardeners love it as it improves the quality of the soil. Scoop it up and stick it in sacks and then sell it. The previous owners of our house used to sell their horse emissions whereas we have the local gardeners club take it away.
Edited by CunningPlan on Wednesday 4th May 01:56
mattdaniels said:
Horses can poo on the move so as a rider there is not a whole lot you can do to stop it happening if you're walking down the road and they decide they need to go.
As the biker above said why not clear it up ? if a lorry shed it load he would be responsible for it, if I threw litter out of a car I would be responsible for it, if my dogs crap ( admitted the actual s
t is different ) I am responsible for it.Why not horse riders ? I never really cared but when I start riding motorbikes it really is a hazard.
Think it is a social norm we have just got used to, like cats craping = ok, dogs laying a cable in your neighbours flower bed = bad
Tampon said:
As the biker above said why not clear it up ?
How would you know when it had done one? You're riding along for a few miles and somewhere along that few miles lies a poo. Arse-Cam?
But it makes more sense just to throw the dung in a handy field for compost, than to take it home in a carrier bag and then put it in a special Council-operated dung recycling bin... then get the car out and buy compost from the garden centre.
Simpo Two said:
How would you know when it had done one? You're riding along for a few miles and somewhere along that few miles lies a poo.
Arse-Cam?
But it makes more sense just to throw the dung in a handy field for compost, than to take it home in a carrier bag and then put it in a special Council-operated dung recycling bin... then get the car out and buy compost from the garden centre.
Trucker could same the same, people still aren't happy when a brick goes through their windows or a tyre gets burst, courts aren't to fond of it either.Arse-Cam?
But it makes more sense just to throw the dung in a handy field for compost, than to take it home in a carrier bag and then put it in a special Council-operated dung recycling bin... then get the car out and buy compost from the garden centre.
I am not saying make it law but it would be nice if a rider could just kick it to the side of the road at least if they did see it, most of the horses I see on the road are in groups, if it was seen, a plastic scoop and a flick it into the hedge ? Sound reasonable ?
Tampon said:
As the biker above said why not clear it up ?
For many reasons, for example not knowing it's happened, it being safer being on the horse than off it, not being able to get back on once you've got off, not carrying a shovel and a bucket, and so on.Being as this is a car forum I can't see this going well for the horse riders here. Obviously a rider would prefer their horse not to be dumping on the road but unfortunately sometimes it is necessary to ride on the road and unfortunately (horse)s
t happens. But as mentioned above it is not a health threat like dogs poo is. 
Simpo Two said:
But it makes more sense just to throw the dung in a handy field for compost, than to take it home in a carrier bag and then put it in a special Council-operated dung recycling bin... then get the car out and buy compost from the garden centre.
If you pick it up and throw it somewhere it will be fly-tipping!As its unadopted check your property deeds to see who has lawful access and whether the road is owned in sections by all the house owners. Then check to see if it's a bridleway. If they have not been invited by a neighbour then they have no right to be there tell them to leave.
It's been a good ten years plus since I last rode a horse on the public road; it can be hard enough stopping them from going where they want (usually to eat somebodies garden) whilst fully in control on their backs.
I'd say that trying to control a 750kg creature and pick up poo would present a greater risk to the rider and other road users that leaving the steaming pile behind.
I'd say that trying to control a 750kg creature and pick up poo would present a greater risk to the rider and other road users that leaving the steaming pile behind.
If a horse craps on the road it is full of flowery goodness and will do no harm (tetanus?). But if said horse crap is put in a wheel barrow, then on a heap, then loaded into a trailer and THEN falls on the road, it is some sort of bio hazard that will kill all it touches so the driver gets fined.
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