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I have found a lady who keeps horses and she charges me 50p a bag.

Hard work shifting it all but I manage.

How do you get yours and do you have to pay for it? :)

Out of the back end of an horse  :D

£30 for a trailerload. Don't ask how much that is

we get it free if we bag it ourselves, 40.00 per trailer load when the farmer has time and the ground is dry enough :o  ;D

Free from the Granddaughters horse when I can persuade son-in-law to fill some bags for me (I do and collect it in my old Mondeo estate)

The site owner dumped a load at the bottom of the allotments for us to help ourselves. I also have access to some stable manure which I can collect for free , I have to bag it & transport it myself  so this year I am well off! ;D ;D

25p a bag at our local stables, take your own bags and fill them yourself.  Supply always exceeds demand.  Free from my sister, but she's 60 miles away.

A local riding school makes a huge heap at the end of their field by a layby, help yourself to as much as you like for a donation! We had several car loads last year, prob 20 bags per car load.

Free from a friend with horses. sometimes they put it in a bag for me, other times I help clean a stall which makes me glad we don't own horses.

We get it delivered by a local farmer: £30 for 4 tonnes.

We have a stables small-holding on site: a heap the size of an average-sized house & help yourself to all you want.

We couldn't shift it as fast as the horses were producing it last year, so several tons got spread on the fields to make room for the next lot.

I have a few places I can pick up from just take the trailor and fill up for free.

With a fork and as much as I want for free. The lady's really grateful every time I turn up.

Quote from: Vortex on April 14, 2008, 20:32:51
With a fork and as much as I want for free. The lady's really grateful every time I turn up.

What does her husband think?  ;D

I got mine through being offered on freecycle. The kind lady don't charge me, but I always bring her some rhubard as a thank you.

I'm always curious what stables who aren't close to allotments do with the stuff?

Round here the local stables charge £1 a bag!!  ::)

Luckily there's a local farmer who will drop off a trailer load for £30, God knows how much it is,  35-40 barrow loads I'd guess?

We can get and bag as much as we want for nothing from local riding stables, we do try to collect it before it rains get much more in a bag when its dryer :D

They dont deliver though

I get mine from daughter who has a livery yard, also the straw from the floor of the barn for mulching. The farmer who she rents land from takes the manure away and makes a mountainous heap in a field.This year he added 'compost' from the local tree feller which is a bummer as the good stuff is now in the middle and I can't get to it. >:(
Another farmer charges £10 a grab/scoop thingy, delivered to the site. Good price I think.

just leave gate open and it arives,chap brings his tractor and trailor and drives in, :) :) :) :)
Pauline

I hope the local farmer who also has riding stables, near us does not read this.

He dumps lorry loads for free and even delivers loads on to the plots if we ask.

They  have to pay to dump it if no one will take it.

We take it fresh and leave it to rot down.

Been a great arrangement for years.

Pay for manure? No-way!

I struck gold about a month ago, answered an ad for free horse muck, it was from a woman who own a stable 300yds down the road from our site. I leave my trailer in her yard, she fills it as she mucks out, I drive in through the electric gates every two days to collect it and dump it on our muck area. Total round trip 25 minutes. No wood shavings, just straw and something called hemp core. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven, it's that easy!