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Location: SW MO | Does anyone know if it is safe to feed horses hay that has fertilized with pig manure? |
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| Have no idea but this was an interesting observation I made yesterday. Green grass is really growing around my house and I always let my horses munch on it for 10 minutes or so every evening. Yesterday i walked them over to some tall green grass that was growing out of some piles with a little horse manure. THey would not touch it with a 10' pole!! LOL But when I took them over to other green grass they ate it like it was last supper. I just wonder if they know it was grown with manure? Who knows. |
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| FLITASTIC - 2017-02-22 10:07 AM
Have no idea but this was an interesting observation I made yesterday. Green grass is really growing around my house and I always let my horses munch on it for 10 minutes or so every evening. Yesterday i walked them over to some tall green grass that was growing out of some piles with a little horse manure. THey would not touch it with a 10' pole!! LOL But when I took them over to other green grass they ate it like it was last supper. I just wonder if they know it was grown with manure? Who knows.
Yep, they won't eat there until next year. At least that is what my uncle told me when I was a kid. We would always have lush green spots in the pasture and the horses would not touch it because there were old manure piles in there. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | That doesn't make sense. That guy in the movie, "The Martian" ate veggies he grew in his own poop. He did just fine. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | FLITASTIC - 2017-02-22 11:07 AM Have no idea but this was an interesting observation I made yesterday. Green grass is really growing around my house and I always let my horses munch on it for 10 minutes or so every evening. Yesterday i walked them over to some tall green grass that was growing out of some piles with a little horse manure. THey would not touch it with a 10' pole!! LOL But when I took them over to other green grass they ate it like it was last supper. I just wonder if they know it was grown with manure? Who knows.
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| Bear - 2017-02-22 11:45 AM
That doesn't make sense. That guy in the movie, "The Martian" ate veggies he grew in his own poop. He did just fine.
He wasn't a horse either
I've noticed my horses do the same in the pastures we don't drag.
OP- I would think it's ok as long as the pigs weren't on any medicated feed? Even then idk if it would matter since it's decomposed? You could check with your extension office?
Edited by veintiocho 2017-02-22 12:52 PM
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | veintiocho - 2017-02-22 1:49 PM Bear - 2017-02-22 11:45 AM That doesn't make sense. That guy in the movie, "The Martian" ate veggies he grew in his own poop. He did just fine. He wasn't a horse either I've noticed my horses do the same in the pastures we don't drag. OP- I would think it's ok as long as the pigs weren't on any medicated feed? Even then idk if it would matter since it's decomposed? You could check with your extension office?
She is an extension agent = I believe |
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Location: Fort Worth / Springtown | I am not sure about that....but it reminds me of someone I know who moved their horses onto what used to be a pig farm, but they did not know this when they purchased the place.
They had a pregnant mare, who lost her foal and when they found out it used to be a pig farm, they attributed it to that, and said that it was supposed to have been communicated to them that it used to be a pig farm.
The details are fuzzy, because this was about 10 years ago and I have not heard anything about it, since then. Has anyone else?
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| 3canstorun - 2017-02-22 12:55 PM
veintiocho - 2017-02-22 1:49 PM Bear - 2017-02-22 11:45 AM That doesn't make sense. That guy in the movie, "The Martian" ate veggies he grew in his own poop. He did just fine. He wasn't a horse either I've noticed my horses do the same in the pastures we don't drag. OP- I would think it's ok as long as the pigs weren't on any medicated feed? Even then idk if it would matter since it's decomposed? You could check with your extension office?
Oh..maybe run it by a vet? In the end, I'd rather be safe than sorry so if you don't get any answers I'd pass on it :-/ |
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Location: SW MO | I know pastures spread with chicken or turkey litter aren't safe for foals |
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| We raise hogs and rent our neighbor's pig nursery. He spreads the manure from the nursery on his hay fields/pasture a lot. It's more watered down than a finishing hog barn's manure would be. He has done this for years. He has Clydesdales and the wife had a couple of Arabians. Never any issues. |
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Location: NW. Florida | Like with chicken litter, or any other type fertilizer when you put it out it has to have rain before you put horses on it. |
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