Growing Squash on Manure?

I'm sure I've read somewhere, though I may have dreamt it, that you can grow squash/courgettes on top of your manure heap and it doesn't have to be particularly well rotted either.  Is this true or did I indeed dream it?! Cheers! x

Thanks M-O-S! I thought I'd read it somewhere and not dreamt it!  The reason I ask is we've a small pile of manure on our plot that has started to rot - it doesn't smell 'manury' at all but you still see where it came from, if you know what I mean  .  I have been kindly given several different types of winter squash seeds through a seed swap on this site.  I was thinking we could put the manure on an area of our plot now and have a lovely winter squash bed. 

Agree with @mumofstig that they may not like it too fresh - could you create a large planting hole in the pile, fill with compost and then plant in that to give the roots something less rich to get started in while the manure gets a bit less 'hot'?

We are goin to try this on our current compost heap. 

Thanks for advice! (Yet again!  )  Its a really small pile of horse manure that we picked up in bags as it was free.  Its been covered and rotting down for about 2 months now and was starting to rot when we got it.  It won't really go very far which was why I was thinking of covering/digging in a smallish area on the plot for winter squash. I think I might give it a whirl.  .  I haven't planted the squash seeds yet - must add to 'to do' list for weekend.

I grew them last year on or in a darlec on top of fresh chicken litter, I put a hole with a small amount of compost and in went the hundred weight pumpkin.

It went mad.