I was raised on a dairy farm and learned early in my life that cow manure is helpful. This utility can be born of necessity, however. In fact, the manure from a herd of 50 cows need a place to jump? That's how I learned that cow manure makes great fertilizer. But we never had horses on the farm, so we started to wonder if horse manure is also useful as fertilizer. Although a wide range of weights between horses, depending on the variety, the average adult weighs about riding 900 to 1100 lbs. A horse that has the size from 8 to 9 tons, or between 16,000 and 18,000 pounds of manure per year. That's a lot of horse manure. What is done with the manure? One option for disposal is to take a dump, but it is not an environmentally friendly option and a number of landfills will not accept horse manure. The best option for the horse manure on the ground so that it decomposes quickly, or for compost and use it in the background theme quality.One with horse manure to improve the distribution of soil fertility is that many people use sawdust or wood shavings as bedding in horse posts. If the posts are clean, dirty sawdust or wood shavings and manure removed. While the horse manure crop itself is a good fertilizer, sawdust and wood chips are not friendly. This is because when you break the wood on the ground to nitrogen deficiency, which slows the growth of crops. To counteract this problem, a nitrogen fertilizer can be added to the soil after the horse manure is spread, or a nitrogen fertilizer can be added to horse manure and sawdust or wood chips mixed before incorporation into the soil. A great way to use horse manure to add to a compost pile. When adding the manure to compost a lot, all the sawdust and wood chips in manure are fine. They are a good "brown" component of compost. It takes about six months of manure, sawdust or wood shavings and other materials added to the compost pile to completely break down and is what many call the "black gold". For a compost pile of horse manure as a component, with elements of the layer of green manure. Many experts recommend alternating themes composed of brown and green, because their sources of both carbon (Articles brown) and nitrogen (organic products) in your need for compost. Articles by Brown as the horse manure, wood chips, sawdust and are major sources of carbon. Other good sources of nitrogen (green dots) for a compost pile are: green leaves, grass cuttings, raw fruit and vegetable remains and coffee beans. Yes, coffee brown, but the application of compost that are considered a green color because they provide the compost pile with nitrogen. Because the compost pile is a living thing, water and air to thrive. Your compost pile should be turned every week, adding water as needed for moisture of the compost pile. You know the rupture process is complete when the composite material is dark and crisp and smelling fresh. Once the horse manure and other materials that become the "black gold" I'ma little bit earlier in this article, it is time to use the black gold. Although not officially considered compost as a fertilizer, which contains nutrients beneficial for plants and soil. A good way to use horse manure compost are: as mulch for garden plants and landscaping around as a component for improving soil sandy soil as a soil improvement for clay soils, and as material for help to control erosion. Now you know that horse manure, which odorous waste product of a beloved animal is a useful product that is environment.