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Old 16-07-2009, 01:22 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening,rec.gardens,rec.gardens.edible
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Default Compost Heap. Horse Manure. Pathogens.

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EastneyEnder wrote:

At the risk of sounding like a nouveau Victor Meldrew, what's gone
wrong with us?

I had my hands in fresh horse manure a few months ago when I helped a
friend muck out his stables.

My dog was there and thoroughly enjoyed eating horse poo - don't ask
- it's a dog thing. I did try to stop him but that was only a bit more
effective as stopping a gourmand access to free cakes and chocolate

I'm up to date with tetanus and have been since about 5 years old.
What's the problem? Anyone gardening should be... more likely to get
it from soil than horses. Or rusty nails. Stood on them when I was a
kid, and Kate Humble's older brother (yes, she of Springwatch) threw
an electric fencing stake javelin-style at me by accident once and I
still have the scar on my knee.

Immune systems need to be built up, or grown: you won't get one unless
you do the work.


My kids in sand box growing up with cat shit. Blood feces urine =
life.


Bill no asthma here

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