Horse Hoof trimmings in the garden - Answer found!?

Im actually unable to answer my own question but I wanted to let you all know I found the answer.





Jerry Baker has this book "Old-Time Gardening Wisdom" (highly recommend this book. Very insightful) and it states in there that horse hooves were added to the garden (soaked and then used to water) as a fertilizer. It says they were the "best". Having horses and an endless supply of trimmings, I'm going to try it.


Thanks

Horse Hoof trimmings in the garden - Answer found!?
You can use horse hooves but it's time consuming for them to break down %26amp; get the nutriants out. Better if you use horse manure takes less time to soak %26amp; has far better nutriants %26amp; great fertilizer. Take dried manure %26amp; soak it, then water your garden. We mix the manure that we collect from mucking stalls or a manure pile directly into the soil in our flower %26amp; vegetable gardens. The growth is amazing!
Reply:Horse hoofs are made of keratin. It eventually works as plant food because it provides nitrogen and sulphur, but you'll get faster results if you use unflavored gelatin (not made from horse's hoofs, btw). Different substance, same benefits, doesn't require as much breaking down.





If you want to use the hoof trimmings, though, you might try putting them in your compost heap first.
Reply:How interesting! I've never heard of that before. If I used my horse hoof trimmings in my garden though, I'd have some disappointed dogs! They love them!





I wrote down your book suggestion, sounds like a good read.
Reply:Are you a horses hoof?