Horse Manure Composting Guide

This video provides easy steps for composting horse manure to reduce nutrient leeching and create quality compost for your property.
Peel-Harvey Catchment Council provided sponsorship to a Landcare SJ and SJ Food & Farm Alliance Equine Manure Composting workshop and our team was lucky to get some time with Robyn from ‘Waste is my resource’, who explains the steps for making a fast, anaerobic compost pile, designed to capture nutrients, reduce resources leeching into the ground water and build a product that can be used on farm or in your garden to create healthy soils and reduce on-farm costs
While you watch the video, you may want to pause or return to specific parts of the process, which for your benefit are identified below:
1:05 Steps to creating quality compost
2:20 Benefits of composting
4:45 Instructions for making a ‘spice’ inoculant/Lab serum
6:22 Making your compost ‘tea bag’
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This video was produced by the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council with funding from the Australian Governments National Landcare Program

[@donthompson4912]

Excellent coverage of the topic.

[@malikkhalid6787]

Very good jee

[@ahuay]

very helpfull, thanks

[@shanteldaly9479]

Thank you.

[@joeohalloran9309]

Hi, I've just found your channel and subscribed great information, I live in Perth too, i get my horse manure in a stable in Darling Downs my question is regarding dewormer long to get rid of the dewormer? I have 2 trailer loads of horse manure mixed with 2 trailer loads of aged wood chips composting how. Thanks Joe

[@robynbrown2193]

Cheers from Robyn

[@austin2842]

I load my compost with spent brewing grains. The grains sour very quickly with lactobacillus bacteria. My compostables heat up like crazy and breaks down very quickly. I wonder if the grains acts like your "spice" ferment.

[@robynbrown2193]

Thats great to hear. Yes, I would imagine the fermented grain has a suite of bacteria working their magic just like my SPICE compost. You could always add seaweed powder for extra minerals to your pile.

[@crossing3790]

My neighbors giving me an endless amount of horse manure that is probably around five years old. It has been out on the field. It is not dry at all. It is kind of gooey like Play-Doh and full of worms. It seems to be very rich, but I’m not sure. It’s not crumbly at all. It’s like you can make mud balls with it without any fluid coming out. What do you think? Is it good? Will it lack nutrients after five years, should I add something? Thanks for any assistance.

[@evil17]

Half ur luck, horse manure is great & if it is full of worms it has got to be good mate, maybe try & break it up into ur compost for extra nutrients with all that worm activity, chunks of this in a tea bag would be a great addition also watered into compost or the ground around any plants. It’s all about bio activity and worms are a good sign of the conditions present & the PH.

[@crossing3790]

@@evil17 tea bag.... great idea thanks

[@robynbrown2193]

Thats amazing you still have moisture in it. The fact you have worms in it is an indication they have been processing the organic matter further and have added value by exuding goodies such as amino acids back into the compost. The moment the rain arrives/season breaks I would be spreading that compost onto your paddocks or making a compost tea and spraying it. Cheers Robyn

[@crossing3790]

@@robynbrown2193 thanks. Have a wonderful day