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Hydrated lime-treated manure would have a white dust on it so it would be easy to spot.
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Maybe. I notice that a light dusting of lime becomes invisible
pretty fast in the garden once it gets wet. The same thing
could happen with lime on manure or shavings. Stables that
use lime probably spread shavings around in the stalls, sprinkle
the lime on it, then the horse and grooms tramp around on it
until the stall gets cleaned out. How visible it is after that
perhaps depends on how much lime they used.
I have asked people with horses if they use lime in their stalls.
So far the answer has been "no", so maybe it is not that
common a practice, just something to watch out for if you
already have close to neutral pH soil.