| [Image: Seeding rates]Horse Pasture Establishment and Management How to utilize your pastures to become a low-cost feed source and source of exercise for your horses. |
| [Image: Figure 1. Fully composted manure.]Manure Management For Horse Owners A detailed overview of good stewardship practices for horse owners and how they manage their manure. |
| [Image: Construction Details]Soil Stabilization Options for Horse Owners How to keep your suburban or rural farm from suffering from excessively muddy areas where there is concentrated horse traffic. |
| [Image: Pages 2 and 3]Designing Roof Gutters for Horse Barns How to design roof gutters on horse facilities in order to divert clean water away from contaminated lot runoff and prevent uncontrolled channeling of rainwater. |
| [Image: Checking the Temperature]Composting Horse Manure for Environmental and Econimic Benefits Composting is a great way to convert horse manure into a more desirable product. Learn more about composting and how you may start doing this. |
| [Image: Horse nutrient cycling]Managing Horse Manure for Environmental Benefits Horses are important for companionship, sport, work, pleasure, education, and therapy. To be good stewards of the land, however, horse farmers should manage their farms in a way to minimize the potential for negatively impacting the environment with horse manure |
| [Image: horse]Managing Horse Stables to Protect Water Quality Horse property barns and stables may contain large quantities of mud because of excessive traffic. Mud is more than a mess or nuisance. Winter and spring rains can cause mud and manure to runoff into nearby waterways. Nutrients and sediment in runoff are a source of non-point source pollution, which can degrade water quality. Louisiana horse owners can reduce the impact on streams and bayous by specific adopting management practices. |
| [Image: muddy horse]Environmental Horse Stables and Barns Louisiana horse owners can reduce the impact of their facilities on local waterways and groundwater by adopting management practices that minimize the potential for non-point source water pollution. |
| 1 |
|