It’s not all gold medals and gallant rides with horses inThe Sims 4: Horse Ranch– you’ve got to deal with the gross parts of raising animals, too. Thankfully, Horse Manure has a couple different uses, though, so at least you’ll reap the reward of your ranch chores.

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Whether you’re using it for fertilizer in your garden or just trying to add a few extra simoleons to your household funds as you clean up the ranch, all that Manure has to go someplace! We’ll show you how to get the most out of Manure in The Sims 4: Horse Ranch.or

How Do You Get Manure?

There are three ways to get Manure in The Sims 4: Horse Ranch, and thankfully, you yourself don’t actually have topick up horse droppings left around the lot.

Additionally, if you’d rather not do the (literal) dirty work yourself, you can alwaysask your Ranch Hand to collect Manure.

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Your Ranch Hands don’t do this automatically, so you’ll need to manually ask it of them.Manure collected by Ranch Hands is placed into the family inventory in Build/Buy Mode.

Each horse you own has to go sometime, so naturally, the more horses you have at your ranch, the more Manure you’ll be producing.

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If you don’t want to actually task a Sim with collecting Manure, though, you canclick and drag Manure into your Sim’s inventory yourselfto collect it as well.

Once collected,Manure is placed into bags in both your Sims' and family inventories.

A Sim kneels down to tend to his garden in The Sims 4.

What’s The Difference In Manure Quality?

There arethree different qualitieswhen it comes to Manure in The Sims 4: Horse Ranch -Poor, Normal, or Outstanding Quality Horse Manure.

The primary difference comes whenusing the Manure as fertilizer. All of them increase crop quality to some degree, but when placed onto plants,the better the Manure quality, the better it will fertilize your plants.

Use Manure For Fertilizer On Crops Or Sell It For Cash

One of the best uses for Horse Manure in The Sims 4: Horse Ranch isas fertilizer for crops grown in your garden.

Different packs may impact how you run your ranch, but if you’ve alsogot a green thumb,horses are a great source of fertilizerthat never really stop producing, so to speak.

Use Horse Manure like you would any other fertilizerswhen tending to your crops - it functions just like fish and other fertilizers do.

Conversely, if you’re not much of a gardener, you’re able to always justsell your Horse Manure for simoleonsto those who do garden.

Manure doesn’t sell for very much, butall money is good moneyin our books!

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