What would you do..(Re: Horse manure)

I loaded 6 large bags of horse manure from a local stable. The manure was in a large containment area and there was quite a lot of straw and what looks like saw dust mixed in with it, so it's not neat manure and i'm assuming there could be straw seeds in the mix also. Another point is that this stable has 30 horses and i would have to assume that the horses have been treated/vaccinated for worms. Do you think that i should compost the manure or would it be okay to put them directly on the the flower beds and vegetable bed that i recently prepared, bearing in mind that I won't be planting anything until spring?
Thanks for any advice.

 

Yep, it's best to rot it down before use, stack it in a pile round a bit of old drainpipe and then pull the pipe out to let a bit of air in.

If you can get fresh manure regularly you could use it to make hot beds, by putting a 6 inch layer of soil on top, it gets the heat from the pile as it rots, good way of raising early crops

 

Get ready for a crop .... lots of seeds pass through a horse untouched ... you might get healthy crops as a result - I did.
Now I ony use Cow manure.

 

Let it rot before using it. The only exception (that I know of) is if you're growing potatoes, which are fine with unrotted horse poo.

 

For the vast majority of plants, this is simply not true. If it was, you'd never see a steaming muck heap because it would be chock full of weeds. Concentrations of certain compounds are simply too high for most plants, and will damage them. This is why it must be allowed to rot for a while. There are exceptions. Potatoes can take it, I've seen some old school roses take it, and rhubarb.