Horse Manure Questions

[frogwash]

Greetings. I was fortunate enough to able to acquire a truckload of horse poop and can get more if this isn't enough for my limited gardenning space.



My plan was to spread this out now over the left over straw that i had been using for mulch on my 2010 tomatoes. I do not have any room to make a pile to compost it so I figured that if I just layer this over the straw that by the time spring rolls around they will both be decently decomposed enough that i can just mix it up in my soil so everything will be good & nutritious for next years tomatoes. It stays relatively warm here in SoCal, zone 8b, so it oughta work by my guess. Kind of a lo-layer lasagna method. I have a couple of questions though. The first is: is there anything else that I really should be adding to this so as to have my soil ready next year?

The other question regards the manure itself. It came from shovelling out horse stalls, but they seem to be using shredded paper for the stalls rather than hay or something similar. I know that paper composts/decomposes and is also used for mulch so I'm hoping shredded paper horse manure stall mix will also work. This can't be the only horse place that uses this. Has anyone else here used this kind of stuff? Are my assumptions correct or do I need to get rid of this and go find some proper horse poop.

Here is a close-up:



Thank you all again for your help and advice.