Should horse owners be made to clear up their muck left on our public roads?
I’m actually surprised there is so much of it. If you are talking about asphalt roads, most of us try to ride alongside them since they are hard on our horse’s limbs. Even gravel roads are hard on the hooves, so we usually stay at the sides if possible. In many more populated areas where I live, like subdivisions, there already restrictions that apply. Also, most parks don’t allow horses, and most forest preserves only allow them in designated areas, if at all. While horse manure is biodegradable and can be spread and composted to function as fertilizer, piles of raw manure don’t function that way, and they do smell and will attract disease-carrying flies and harbor their larvae. I don’t leave piles of manure in my driveway or in and around my barn. So I don’t think it is all that unreasonable to not like having it all over the roads. The problem is that it just isn’t practical or even safe to clean it up while you are riding the horse. My fear is that riding may be increasingly banned
