Daft question .....but is it illegal for horse owners to let their beasts poo on shared walking/cycle paths? Yesterday I cycled on the old Deeside railway line and there was loads of horse poo to dodge along the way...I'm sure they must pick up like dog owners have to? Anyone know?
Horse Poo
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Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
While horse dumps aren't as bad as dog dumps for diseases they certainly are worse for causing an obstacle! I think the riders should be expected to pick/shovel it up. I remember years ago when people would shovel up horse muck and put it on their gardens. I suppose they began to realise that for its small benefit it wasn't worth having the unsightly stuff all over their roses.
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RitchieJoe
Active Member
I do recall watching a show involving police horses and one of the people responsible for caring for the horse "claimed" that horse muck doesn't contain harmful bacteria.... but that's probably a load of s**t
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Is this a "It's all the fault of Tory Scum" thread?
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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The police horses from Hammersmith regularly dump their sh#t on the road round here. I ride round it. It isn't that difficult. Besides, it's not that smelly or offensive.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
Yes it is a daft question.
Perhaps once you've persuaded the cyclists and walkers to stop discarding litter and dog owners to stop hanging their dogs' bagged up poo off fences and hedgerows, you might find time to take on the horse riders too.
jack smith
Veteran
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- Durham
Ive fell off on the stuff atleast twice i can remember, once(probably more) on the maze/tight tarmac corners on the route 7 c2c i cycle daily on this lath basically its a series of tight chicanes and its always covered in the stuff, and another descending a country road and a big lump of it was in the middle, i went over the bars into a hedge. Disguisting if you ask me its alot larger than dog stuff so should definatley be picked up harmful or not.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
I once saw what i thought was the biggest pile of horse poo ever when I was cycling through the Carmargue. Then I spotted that it had a tail. It was a dead coypu.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
jack smith
Veteran
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- Durham
Yeah even a dog cant see around corners. 
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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I can imagine that might have been a bit malodorous if you hit it full on. POP!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
Yeah even a dog cant see around corners.
Buy it a periscope or get it to slow down so that both of you can stop within the range of your combined vision.
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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
I was very excited at the sight of my first 'exotic' road kill. Ten kilometres on I gave up counting coypu corpses I didn't realise how common they were.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
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- Perthshire,Scotland
Can't say it bothers me when cycling, but it's annoying on the trail I walk my pooch on as she eats it if I don't catch her in time and it gives her the scoots! 
