Green Horsemanship

Apr 22, 2009 06:01

Today is Earth Day in the Northern Hemisphere. How is your farm going green ( Read more... )

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thehomicidehoe April 22 2009, 18:51:38 UTC
On different note (I had a convo with a coach about this today), I was told that spreading your OWN muck-heap on your OWN fields isn't good (Makes keeping worms at bay difficult). Do you have a reallysuperawesomeironclad worming progamme, or do your horses do just fine anyway?

I'm not very eco-friendly really. I take the bus a lot and recycle most stuff. My collage has a recycling system in place, with all the different bins and a severe talking to for not using them. And they bag and sell all their manure (But that's just buisness innit?). My own yard isn't particularly eco-friendly either, although I did get given out to for cold-hosing my horses leg 'cause of the environment' (?).

Nice topic though, I like the rainwater collecting thing!

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12to15steps April 22 2009, 22:24:04 UTC
I hadn't heard anything about problems with worming, though it's an interesting thought. I do have a pretty swell worming program (if I do say so myself), and we don't spread on pasture - we have a lot of acreage that is for hacking and hay production (we don't do our own hay; our neighbor round-bales it for his cattle).

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athystle April 23 2009, 11:19:12 UTC
Properly composted manure, and Im sure yours is, has been heated up to a point where worms and seeds and whatnot are not a concern.

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12to15steps April 23 2009, 13:42:33 UTC
There it is! I knew there was a reason... ta da!

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thehomicidehoe April 23 2009, 18:00:42 UTC
Ahh! Makes sense! I admit I'm pretty useless at the whole worming thing (I don't understand ANY of it, but I'm learning!), same with Grassland Management!

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