On 25 Mar 2006 08:04:50 -0800, "htmark98"
wrote:

A friend has a horse stables and offered my some manure, now is it ok
just to take or will i need to do something to it first?

It will need to be composted down of piled up and left to rot for a
while.
If put onto many plants or shoots it is too strang and will burn and
kill them.