Horse Poo

[shaveoff]

Hi

Does anyone know if there is any legislation out there to make horse riders clear up after them when on public roads in a similar manner to dog owners. I live in Newmarket and it is a considerable problem which no-one (in authority) seems to be able to answer.

shaveoff

[LoftyLottie2]

Rats, mud all over the road , horse manure, sugar beet dropping off lorries, wonderful smells of lime and chicken sh**, being forced off the road by tractors and farm machinery, etc. etc. country living is divine!!

[daffy654]

I love the area I live in,I can see rolling countryside just by walking(or in my case being pushed in my wheelchair) 5 minutes from my front door. I could never go back to living in a city now.

[LoftyLottie2]

Me neither :o)

[no-knowledge]

Horse poo


ok i tried to ignore this Question but then i saw Mrs O's name and thought if mrs' O is looking at it , it must be worth a look . :0(

[no-knowledge]

it's surprising really how many of you are looking at Horse poo

[mrs_overall]

That sounds lovely daffy. I bet you'll be able to watch the seasons change.

Lottie, you once confessed to living in a turnip field. What do you expect? lol

[sandmaster]

Absolutely daffy.

[LoftyLottie2]

He he Mrs O!

I look rather like Wurzle Gummage most of the time!! I have given up trying to look clean and tidy and keeping mud free!!!

[mrs_overall]

Hmmm.

I can't decide if no-know is insinuating that I make valid points worth reading.......or if he sees my name on a post it must be sh*t.

[tamborine]

The origin of roads today.....

http://www.legacydiecast.com/xq/asp/id.TY89/qx /review.htm

Horse-manure is re-constituted grass. You could smoke it ;-)

[paraffin]

How come so many people seem to be tolerant about horse poo but if some of them see a minute amount of dog's doo dahs on the ground it's a hanging offence for the "irresponsible owners"?
It's a funny old world, innit?

[shaveoff]

In answer to Fredpuli 47.

If it was only on the horse walks it wouldn't be such a problem, however if you ever have reason to walk on Exeter Road, Doris Streel Cheveley Road, Birdcage, Duck Lane (Exning) and there are many more you will see that the horses obviously do not realise that they are no longer on a designated horsewalk and still poo all over the place. This is not restricted to just the road either, in some areas especially Exeter Road, Ducks Lane and Cheveley Road it is nearly impossible to walk without having to walk in poo. I appreciate that the horses are vegetarians and therefore their waste is less harmfull but this argument stand for a human vegan? Also I too can remember rag and bone men etc and people quickly going out to gather some "prime rose feed" but unfortunately the stuff that race horses are fed on does not make for anything more than a nasty mess.

[sandmaster]

paraffin - it's the toxin levels. Horse poo is far less dangerous. I am both a horse and a dog fan, having owned two of each until fairly recently and dog poo is repellent whilst horse's isn't so bad.

[ruthann58]

why live in newmarket if you dont like the horses they were here long before you, you must have known what it wold be like when you moved here

[shaveoff]

To ruthann58

Just because something has been going on for along time does not mean it is right, afterall we have flushing loos now because we now know that streets full of poo are a bad thing.

[fredpuli47]

Shaveoff I'm still puzzled.

I've lived 10 miles from Newmarket for 62 years, know the town pretty well, for three years, until three years ago lived in Ashley Road, next road to Cheveley Road (which you mention) where I was right opposite a stud farm and Warren Hill gallops. Never noticed any horse muck in that road, nor anywhere. Are you sure you're not driving round the town looking for it?LOL

One of the roads you cite is in Exning, a village the other side of the A14 which acts as the Newmarket by-pass, not in Newmarket at all but what, 2 miles out? Of the others, not sure why anyone would ride down Doris Street, a short right angle of residential street.Birdcage is a bit more likely, though not very as to why you'd take a string of horses down it (you might in the adjacent road).Exeter Road, I take it you don't mean the end near the centre, but it may be that the rest is or was a bridleway as well as a public road (not sure , from memory, what condition it's in as to tarmac or road surface)None of these are in the centre of the town.

Are you new to the town (or to horses) ? If your a born and bred town person you'd notice one single drop of muck as some nuisance. (but you'd have no right to complain)As I say, I've never noticed muck as anything like problem. If you wanted muck on the road you could come to my village, where people do ride horses and ponies through the streets ! There there's more in one weekend than I've ever noticed in Newmarket (but we don't and wouldn't make a fuss because it's natural and part of living in a village out here)

[lankeela]

Horseracing has been going in in Newmarket since 1622. If you are that much against horse manure I would suggest you move, as there are more horses in the Newmarket are than anywhere else in the world. It is what the town's economy is based on so I think you would be fighting a losing battle to take on the local council.

[tamborine]

Townies in the countryside! Less horses in the city - move!

[shaveoff]

I think we have gone off the path a little - I do not want to stop horses/horse racing/horse traing/ horse breeding etc in the town, far from it - its a pretty bleak place already and would be considerably worse without the industry here, what I cannot understand is why there is so little done to prevent fouling on public roads and footpaths in the town (and surrounding hotspots) when a solution is so simple. In construction if you are causing mud to form/collect on a public highway you have to clear it away in a reasonable time so that no harm is caused to the public (road or pedestrian) the same goes for farmers. Surely it wouldn't be too much to ask if the yards concerned would send someone out with a barrow or similar to clear up after the morning gallops.
Another thing to ponder, if anyone, which has happened recently in the press, is caught throwing an apple core out of their car window they are liable to prosecution so why not riders? I know its a different sort of litter but.............

[tamborine]

waste foods are attractive to rats - hence prosecutions. Horse manure is not mud but grass and impractible to clear while mounted. Too many bridle paths are closed in favour of peoples recreation in parks etc. Riders dice with death on public roads due to unsympathetic drivers; given the choice a rider would rather gallop an open plain - few available though.

Carnivores faeces carry virus' damaging to us.