Re: RE: horsemanure
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] RE: horsemanure
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:04:29 -0700
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
> From: Catherine Fulmer <manowar@vramp.net>
>
> One thing I did not see mentioned about horsemanure as a fertilizer is
> that it usually has a higher seed activity than manure of other
> ruminants.
Just to keep the record straight, horses are not ruminants. Ruminants are
herbivorous animals with a 4-chambered stomach that provides them with an
efficient means of fermenting and digesting high fiber feeds. They include
such species as cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo, elk, deer, and antelope.
Horses have a simple stomach like humans, dogs, and pigs. They do have a
fermentation chamber in their digestive system, the cecum (anatomically
equivalent to the human appendix), but it is much less efficient than the
rumen in cattle, etc. Therefore, horses do tend to digest their feed less
thoroughly, as you say.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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