The owner of a horse which became trapped in a deep manure heap has expressed her gratitude to firefighters for rescuing him.

Meanwhile, just a few steps ahead, there's a pile of horse manure in the middle of the path, with no one in sight to clean it ...

“The manure must be piled and the carbon-to-nitrogen (C/N) ratio should be 30-to-one, 50 per cent of the pore space should contain water and the pile must be aerobic (having oxygen),” said Wayle ...