Horse Manure Removal in Temecula: We Load It, Haul It, and Keep Coming Back

We price by trailer volume, not by the hour or by the ton. A quarter load is 3 cubic yards at $195, which is our minimum pickup. A half load is 6 cubic yards at $350, a three-quarter load is 9 cubic yards at $495, and a full load is 12 cubic yards at $595. Fuel and landfill disposal are already inside every one of those numbers. A full load also covers the first hour of loading by a two-person crew; past that hour it is $75 per hour per crew member. Stairs, appliances, and mattresses have their own set figures, and every one of them goes in your written estimate before we touch a fork.

Riverside County's watershed protection guidance for horse owners asks you to pull soiled bedding and manure out of stalls, pens, and corrals at least once a day, hold it in a covered container that will not seep, and then either compost it or set up weekly manure pickup. Daily mucking is on you. The second half is where we come in. Two or three horses on shavings usually need us weekly or every other week to keep the storage pile from outgrowing the container. One horse with light bedding can often go monthly. After the first haul we tell you what your property actually produces and pick a cadence off that number rather than a guess.

Both, and most equine properties end up on a schedule after the first visit. We run weekly, every-other-week, and monthly routes for barns across Temecula, Murrieta, Wine Country, De Luz, and French Valley. Once the cadence is set you stop calling us; the crew just shows up on the agreed day. Per-visit pricing holds steady at the same load size across the whole schedule, so you can budget it like any other barn expense.

Yes, and honestly that is most of what we load. Wood shavings, straw, sawdust, hemp, pellet bedding, it all goes in the same trailer as the manure. The mix matters for the estimate though. Bedding-heavy material is lighter per cubic yard but eats more trailer space, while straight wet manure is dense enough to hit the trailer's weight rating before the box looks full. Tell us which one you have when you call and the load size we quote will actually hold.

A full load bills at 12 cubic yards. The dump trailer box itself measures 12 feet long by 8 feet wide by 4 feet tall, which works out to roughly 14.2 cubic yards to the top rail, and it needs a gravel driveway or other firm ground to stage on. We bill the 12 that loads level rather than the 14.2 the box would hold heaped, because anything mounded above the rail can spill on the road. For a two or three horse property that is roughly a month of accumulation with bedding included. If your pile is soaked from a storm or is straight manure with no shavings, we may hit weight before we hit volume, and we will tell you on the phone whether that is one trip or two before anybody starts loading.

They can, and proximity to water is what decides it. The Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board runs a Confined Animal Facilities unit that covers horse facilities in Riverside County, and land application of manure is separately regulated by Riverside County through the Agricultural Commissioner's office. If your pile sits within about 50 feet of Murrieta Creek, a seasonal drainage, an ag ditch, or a storm-drain inlet, that is the situation that draws attention, especially once winter rain starts moving through it. Hauling the material off the property removes the storage question entirely. If you plan to compost or spread instead, check that plan with the Regional Board before you build it.

Yes, if you have the room and you are willing to work it. A real three-bin system, turned a couple of times a week, held around 50 to 60 percent moisture, will run above 130 degrees Fahrenheit and cook out weed seeds and most pathogens. What comes out the far end is a soil amendment local gardeners will drive over and pick up for free. The trap is the half-built version. A pile nobody turns never gets hot, so it stays raw manure with the same fly and runoff problems, just in a nicer box. Plan on 90 to 120 days before finished compost goes anywhere near a vegetable bed. We haul the overflow for barns that compost and the whole volume for the ones that cannot.

Yes. Goats, pigs, chickens, cattle, sheep, alpacas, we take all of it, along with the mixed farm waste that piles up next to it, old hay, spoiled feed, busted fence posts, worn tack. Poultry litter is the one to flag when you call because it is denser and higher in nitrogen than horse manure, so the volume estimate works out differently. Tell us the animal and the bedding and we will size the load right.

Daily mucking does more than anything else you can buy, because house flies lay in fresh manure within about 24 hours and finish a full cycle in roughly a week, so pulling it every day breaks that cycle before anything hatches. After that, keep the storage pile covered and downwind of the barn aisle rather than beside it. Weekly releases of parasitic wasps like Spalangia and Muscidifurax knock down emergence without spraying anything, and baited traps around the perimeter catch what gets through. Our horse manure removal tips page walks through the whole between-haul routine.

We cover the equine properties across Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Wildomar, Lake Elsinore, Canyon Lake, Winchester, French Valley, Hemet, Fallbrook, Rainbow, and De Luz, plus the Wine Country and Santa Rosa Plateau properties in between. Weston Molitor and the crew live and work here, so we already know which lanes off Sandia Creek and Calle Contento a loaded trailer can actually get back out of. Call or text (951) 837-8072 with your address and we will confirm access before we book anything.

We run Monday through Saturday, 7am to 7pm, and we are closed Sunday. There are same-day slots most days, especially if you are flexible on the window. Call early in the day for the best shot at getting on the board, because once the trailer is committed to a route we are usually running it out to the end of the day. Recurring customers get their day locked in and do not have to chase a slot at all.

Weston Molitor started Wild West Junk Removal in Temecula in 2021 and still runs loads himself. We are family-owned, licensed, and insured, and the same crew that handles the general junk hauling handles the manure work. There is no broker in the middle taking your call and selling the job to somebody else. Everything we pick up goes to a licensed composting or disposal facility. It never gets dropped on public ground or on a neighbor's back acre.

The load bracket and the price are settled before we roll up, and that number already has fuel and landfill disposal in it. If your job needs loading time past the included hour, or involves stairs, appliances, or mattresses, we tell you those figures up front and you agree to them before anybody starts working. Nothing gets added to the invoice after the trailer leaves. The price you approve is the price you pay.