Monday, May 13, 2013
Moving Manure
I work at the barn where my horses are boarded. I do many things and one of them is to clean the pastures and stalls/paddocks of some of the horses. Someone told me that a 1000 lb horse produces 50 lbs of manure a day. That got me to thinking....how much manure do I move in a year? Most of the horses I clean up after are under 1000lbs. During the dry weather the weight of manure in the pastures/paddocks is lighter. But in the winter it is heavy with the wetness of the rain. So I trimmed the amount of manure each horse produces....because of the less weight of the horses and 1/2 the year it is very dry. However the stalls-some of those horses just use the stalls as a bathroom! So I came up with a number for the year-36 tons. I went over the numbers again and again. Still the same. I guess I could say that's alot of manure. But I think it says something else... If someone were to ask me to move a pile of anything and that "anything" was sitting in front of me-all 36 tons of it-I'm not sure I'd move it. But if I did a little bit every day and in the period of a year moved all 36 tons, that would be doable. I guess when something looks insurmountable it is good to step back and look at the pieces, take it bit by bit and soon you will have accomplished your goal. I guess if I can move that much manure in a year I can accomplish some more lofty goals...bit by bit!
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