Anyone else mad enough to be poo picking by torchlight?

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As subject says i am there in the dark with a lantern i walk in a straight line with the lantern held out or on my head. find a poo. put lantern down by said poo. stumble back to the wheel barrow and stear towards the light. Rinse and repeat. Feel like an idiot. look like an idiot!

What is worse is that directly looking onto my current field is a chap from the fast show. i am imagining some sort of sketch involving a mad women in work gear and wellies appearing in a future series :)
 
Lol i have to muck out in the dark as have no lights and mare on box rest dont finish work until 7 and also try to do a bit of poo picking with touch as well im sure people must think im mad who live next door to where i keep the horses.
 
Yes! I have a head torch though, worth it's weight in gold...
I have three all living out atm while stable roof is being fixed, and I like my weekends too much to spend them poo picking, so I try and get at least 3/4 barrow loads out durin the week :(
 
Lady La La> i have one of those too but i can't seem to find it from last year! i agree i remember thinking at the time what would i do without it.....i have my answer now.....look like a fool!

claireandnadia> i would but they are in my smaller paddock this week to give my main field 1-2 weeks rest before the winter so no option but to do it every day.

abigail621> they must have thought there was a robber the first time you were there by torch light! does you horse mind you in the stable hunting for poo with a torch? :)
 
Yes, I use a head torch and it is great, leaves my hands free. I have 3 in the field 24/7 currently so i clear the field every day after work.
 
You lot are mad I just do extra on my days off lol.

However I feed and check with a head torch if I can get anywhere near Samba that is shes petrified of the torch still.
I just bought a new torch from Aldi its like a square one, really bright, and has a magnet and a clip on it. Lights up a stable on its own. Really chuffed with it. :D
 
Being on the edge of suburbia, it's never what I'd call 'dark'. Although not overlooked by street lights or any lights, you can still see the poo piles even without a torch. I am fortunate in that my two have 3 toilet spots in the top paddock between them, one by the electric fence,on in one corner and one in the other. Poo is always there, never anywhere else. When in the woods, which is where our much heap is, they have two poo spots, and also poo on the edge of the muck heap - how convenient is that?!
 
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