The Lighter Side of Horse Manure shares the humorous (intentional or not) wisecracking wit of writer Linda Drattell's aging farm animals and the appreciation (or lack thereof) of those animals by her fellow humans. As if looking through the eyes of her mischievous animals, she imagines them all tossing quips as they endure indignities, put up with each other's orneriness and envy, and suffer through flies, dental visits, trimmed hooves, and more.