The Many Ways to Compost Manure (Let's Try Them All!) 

As a horse owner and gardner this is great i compost all mine before using. My garden and fields are awesome. My grand father grew and bred award winning roses....he said horse manure was best if hay was alfalfa. Now the down side some hay is sprayed with chemicals that inhibit plant growth....so take some of that year old stuff and do a bean germination test. Cannot remember the chemicals name.....Can be in purchased compost too but think they are screening better 4 that now. Just fyi and cannot wait to see if results. Horse manure i joke i partially composted hay. Also dogs love it.😂 keep up the great content happy New years

I have a similar obsession with collecting leaves. Every year I collect way more leaves than i need for composting. I call fall 'leaf season' now.

I'm thankful that 2020 brought me to this channel. My grandfather was an ag professor many years ago and the joke has been that you don't say dirt around him. I think it has been super exciting for him to hear all the stuff I'm learning about SOIL. Can't wait to see how this manure series goes. I live in Amish country so I'm guessing I can get good access to horse manure.

Never thought I would be excited about crap. I'm looking foward to your videos. Happy New Year.

If your soil sucks to begin with I think its quicker to mix in alot of organic material. Then go to no till.

I’m actually quite excited to see all the different ways you utilize your “2020” 😃

Can confirm, am addicted to composting and composting videos 😂 Looking forward to this months experiments

Hey Diego I had a little laugh at 1:40 waiting for you to say"But wait there's more! If you act now......." 12 cubic yards for $100.00 USD delivered!!! That's the bargin of 2020. I paid $300.00 USD for 10 cubic yards of dirt delivered. Hap

Excellent video! I am looking forward to Manure Month!!

D-I-E-G-O.... D-I-E-G-O.... Diego was his name! Musical lilt rhyming with a childhood song we had. B-I-N=G=O.... looking forward to a January... full of S-H-I-T.

I live in a neighborhood with horse farms...I get 50-60yds about 3 times a year. My neighbors bring it to me. I have so many compost piles lol.... the bananas love it. Looking forward to your results

I love your positivity Diego, always turn the bad into to greatness

So, I just spent seven minutes of my rarely occurring night learning about manure composting. Life is funny.

Hi Diego, I would also be concerned about Aminopyralid especially in the US where sparying is much more used than the EU where I am. I test my local horse manure with peas, I just take a seed tray and scoop manure form different places of the pile into the different cells, plant the peas and se if they sprout! Even if the horses get Aminopyralid free fodder, they could still get Aminopyralid bedding material. Best of luck!

Thanks for sharing that first video of 21. I just did the exact same thing with an addition of 6 inches of shredded leaves on top of the manure. Hope those worms to to town on it . Temps getting down to freezing now so I just made it in time before the first snow,

I have an unlimited supply of manure from a friend who owns a stables. I just shove most of it into daleks and dont even bother turning it or putting air pipes into it . I've just emptied two daleks that I filled last year and the compost is wonderful.

Great Achievement here

Happy new year!

It's all about being loco with it 😜

Maybe talk about the issue of persistent herbicides in manure from what the animals eat.

A shitty start to 2021, and i love it.

Try planting seeds directly into some of that year-old horse manure. I got a trailer load of horse poo last spring that was supposed to be a year old but definitely wasn't - it was still steaming aggressively when the guy dumped it in May. By the end of July it had cooled down some and I decided to seed a pile of it with sunflowers, pinto beans, turnips and radishes. I hadn't turned the pile or anything. My thinking was that the seeds might not even germinate and the plants probably wouldn't amount to anything, but maybe getting some roots going in there would help the manure break down. To my pleasant surprise all 4 types of seeds sprouted and grew just like normal - and yielded nearly as well as they would have in proper finished soil. I don't recommend planting in a fresh cow pie or anything like that - there are various obvious issues there - but I continue to feel more and more that people in general are *way* too freaked out about having "perfect" compost or soil.

Yes !!!! Verry happy with this vid !!! I got my own horses so this is verry helpful !! And the horse owners having to pay to get rid of the manure is also here in holland a "problem". Manny owners would be happy if you offer to take some or everything.

As others have noted, aminopyralids are a pervasive concern in hay crops and any resulting livestock manures. A simple bioassay via sprouting and 4-ish weeks of growth on some bean plants can confirm or mostly rule out the presence of the chemical and therefore reduce risk (and there ARE risks with that pile in your driveway. they are widely used around the country). Unfortunately, they are legal in California, and are one of the most common herbicides used for control of things like thistle in hay fields. until persistent herbicides are illegal and out of production, I won't be using any manure products sadly :(

Happy new year Diego and crew!

For me the most practical is the lasagna method. I do that in the fall and let the worms do their job. I mostly love horse manure and bedding right on top of the soil. I cover that with leaves for worm food and isolation. I keep the green house gasses and co2 in the soil that way is better for the environment and easy on my back.

D-I-E-G-O, D-I-E-G-O, D-I-E-G-O and Diego was his name-o! This always pops in to my head when you introduce yourself at the beginning of each video lol

Wow, thank you for posting this. I love your info.

In addition to antibiotics, other undesirable chemicals and weed seeds found in horse manure, I would also be concerned about e-coli. Please address these concerns in future videos. Thanks

Damn. Didn't realize Pitbull was a proponent of agriculture. Thanks for the delivery of dookie data, Mr. Worldwide.

Hilarious, love it! Happy 2021!

Great video .

I think it's great. What if the horses have been dewormed?

Looking very forward to this.

This is the perfect kind of crazy series topics. Bring on the pun acronyms! Make sure to address the fear of weed seeds.

Need to figure out how to turn all my sheep poo into something good for my farm. This will be a good series.

Awesome, I am excited!

Sweeeet! I have some year old horse manure to do this along with you!

Isn't the general rule to not have any exposed dirt? Would white Dutch clover provide a green cover pulling carbon and nitrogen out of the atmosphere while the organic material decomposes?

That's some shit. Look forward to some great videos. Happy New Year and thank you.

Alright, that guy's really funny

Happy New Year!

Thanks diego!!

I’m so addicted to composting 🥴

"Poo and You." :D

Great timing! In our community 3.5 acres I got a guy to dump tons of wood chips for the last 2 years. The wood chips piles shrink from about 7 feet to 4 feet tall. Does it sound like a good idea to place horse manure on top of those piles in order it sifts through the wood chips? I will be trying different methods as you present them. Thank You! Happy New Year!!!

Hi, I am curious to see if you end up with a lot of weeds in the beds where the manure isn't heated up. If you could let us know in future videos I would appreciate it. Thanks for all the composting videos love it.

Absolutely craptastic! Can't wait for the shit to settle

Happy New Year, Diego! I am wondering whether it is useful to bury manure under regular soil or a mix of clay & sand.

Any exploration of vermicomposting horse manure on a mid/large scale?

Bahahaha best intro ever!

If you sieve that manure you can seed straight into it

The problems with horse manure are the possible 1. Salt content and 2. worm medication. Best to ask about both before delivery and "soak, wash & rinse" before using. 6/13/21

Hey Diego, for the first time ever, I am mixing fresh chicken manure with char in hopes it will make Biochar. Ever tried that?

What do you think about dried Spruce cones- I know they're slow to break down but I have tons. Also free horse manure and county leaf mold.

I'll continue to call January what I've always called January. Shit.

This guy looks gangstah

I live in Florida how do I keep the red ants out.

The only poop I have readily available is dog poop. There is a horse stable close, maybe I should ask if they would be giving me some

I hope the horse manure has no dewormer in it. My horse manure has no worms.

When horse manure has a dewormer. When is it safe to add to worm bin

Humanure the next bunch videos for footer ?

Bio char question???? After I make mine it often has a silver color to it, any idea why? TIA

hey guys what would happen if someone used the sea cucumber DNA to fill in the gaps of every farm animals genomes

I stored some compost over the winter in buckets. It completely dried out. I know it’s not the best practice. But I am assuming there is no harm in adding it to my raised beds before planting. Thoughts please?

How bad does horse manure smell?

Looking forward to more of your s#*t!🤣

This is the time to say chemical fertilizer bye bye and accept organic manure to save mother earth, and humanity. Happy New Year 2021💖💐

How about the herbicides in the hay that the horses eat? Don't you think that the herbicides can persist in the manures even though they go through the animal gut? Just curious because some of those persistent herbicides (such as clopyralid, picloram, aminopyralid and aminocyclopyrachlor) can cause issues in seedling growth. Charles Dowding is the first person I have heard talkng about this issue - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w7vr-GlzuZs.html I will be interested in finding out more from your channel how it affects plant growth in your garden.

The thumbnails here are going to crap

Get 'Loco' with horse sh**

Processed generation z. But from it, will grow another crop, that will again, get processed through some cow's intestine. It's the circle of life. 🌹 😤

I have too much quail poop.

CRAP.. composting real animal products

Thank you 💩🤢

Horse manure has a lot of antibiotics, which is unfit for gardening