Collecting manure

I'm no great expert on manure but I would say it could either go in the compost bin or be left in a pile of its own.  Fresh manure takes nitrogen from the soil in order to decompose, so the advice is I think not to apply it fresh for that reason.  However, if you've got nowhere else to store it then I'd have thought it's better to have it than not at all.

Would like to hear what others with more experience say, though

Over the past couple of years I've greatfully recieved bag loads of horse manure..
each year piled it up in a pallet style compost heap, layering it as I go..by that I mean
two bags of manure and then cover with vedge waste (greens) from the plot. again
add more manure, so on and so forth..each year Novemberish cover the surface of
my next years potato beds  3-5inch deep, leave till Jan-Feb time dig it over.
This seems to allow the weather to rot it down....and I gotta be honest the results
have been great so far..
Also always hold back at least one bag full, which is tipped into an old plastic onion
sack, tied to a stout stick  and hung into a barrel of water...liquid manure on tap...
Ideal for them hungry cougettes, toms ect....

So if I stacked a few bags each week in a pallet style enclosure and then use over the winter all I then have to do is dig it over come Jan-Feb?

I can pretty much get manure as and when I want it so if the above is ok, I could set my manure in now. Also the with regards the pallet enclosure would I need to line the inside of it to keep warmth etc or by putting a tarpaulin liner in there would it just become a water collector with horse dodo in it for good measure?

But the last thing you want to do is dig in fresh manure into existing crops. The strong urines and other factors will burn plant roots which is why its better to use old manure for existing crops. By using a bit of fresh manure as mulch, be sure it is only a little bit as you'd risk plant roots with too much.

Gonna sound silly but when you have a pallet full of manure how do you manage to turn it? shovel out into another pallet box? I have the space to do this so could literally have one as a spare. Also is it likely to just get hot during the summer months, meaning when it starts getting colder the need to turn is not there?

My plots are quite large so if I were to get the beds ready with soil etc, would I be ok to put manure on the top as well bearing in mind this would be preperation for next year?