Who has experiences to recycle horse dung?
By constaanta
@constaanta (571)
Germany
May 12, 2009 4:36am CST
We live in Germany and have a nice Norwegian Fjord horse. Recently we changed the floor of her stable from straw to wood pellets. Now we are able to take out daily about 12 kg of absolutely clean horse dung ("horse apples" as we say) and use it as a fertilizer in our garden. But our garden is small and the horse is producing daily .... and the neighbours on the horse farm watch us for lowering the daily work of cleaning the stable by 80% and having more fun riding the horse. The owner of the horse farm looks interested to get rid of his cost for waste disposal of the "classic horse dung" (based on straw and shavings) in case we replace the straw by wood pellets like we have done.
Is anybody out there on myLot who has experience on a bigger scale how to recycle natural horse dung (70% humidity) for example to heat houses or to produce methane gase and electricity? I am asking because I have understood there is a strong community from India on myLot and in their country using cow dung has a long tradition. But of course also any other idea from all over the world would be welcome.
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@irishfury187 (375)
• United States
13 May 09
ive never had a horse, but im assuming that you live in the country since you have a horse, so you probably live next to a good bit of farmers, you could possibly sell the horse dung to them for fertilizer if you sell cheaper than other fertilizers, you may make a quick buck..thats just what i would do lol,
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@constaanta (571)
• Germany
13 May 09
Well ... the local farmers actually are my competitors not my potential clients: They take the "classical horse dung" (=mixture of straw, shavings, horse apples, hair from brushing etc.) to save some money for chemical fertilizer in their fields. But they charge the horse farm transport fees of about 700€ for a one-year-quantity of horse dung (about 500 m³).
I would need an option to sell the clean horse dung (= horse apples only) to potential buyers for example in 10kg plastic bags or in sea containers. Or a technology to convert it into electricity on a 100kg/day scale.
