Anyone stop poo picking when field is muddy?

[Ali27]

I’m a compulsive twice a day poo picker but this week I completely lost the will? I did a barrow tonight on the dry part but couldn’t face doing the muddy part! I’m thinking of leaving it for next 6 weeks and then harrowing! Will be rested until next Oct/ November! But it will stress me out big style ??

 

[HashRouge]

Oh god yes! I usually manage until December then give up.

 

[Auslander]

Yep! I have 15 horses living out, and poo picking stops the moment that the ground gets slushy. As soon as it dries up, I get the fields harrowed and rolled, then poo pick daily throughout the dry season.

 

[ponynutz]

My Dad refuses to poo pick full stop while I'm away. Horses have survived perfectly fine, they just tend to ignore that bit. I'm gone for about 6 weeks at a time.

 

[tda]

Yes because collect poo with a quad bike and trailer and it makes a right old mess if it gets too wet

 

[Flame_]

I’m a compulsive twice a day poo picker but this week I completely lost the will? I did a barrow tonight on the dry part but couldn’t face doing the muddy part! I’m thinking of leaving it for next 6 weeks and then harrowing! Will be rested until next Oct/ November! But it will stress me out big style ??

Nope, I spend about an hour an evening anally stepping tiny steps around my field, flattening out all the tracks where my horses have walked as well as poo picking. I definitely think this could get me diagnosed with some psychological defect but I haven't pursued it.

 

[asmp]

In the past I have made mini muck heaps around the edge of the field when I haven’t been able to get the wheelbarrow through the mud. Haven’t had to do it since getting mud mats in the gateways.

 

[windswoo]

Only time we don't poo pick is when it snows as the barrow wheel seizes up.
Last time it snowed it took us two weeks to catch up after it had gone and it was hell.

 

[DabDab]

Yep! I have 15 horses living out, and poo picking stops the moment that the ground gets slushy. As soon as it dries up, I get the fields harrowed and rolled, then poo pick daily throughout the dry season.

This. When it gets soggy I give up then roll in the spring and rest. There's little to no grass being eaten by mid-December anyway, and they poo the other side of the field from where we put the hay, so risk is fairly minimal

 

[rextherobber]

Yes, the wheelbarrow can't get through the mud empty, let alone full!

 

[SEL]

I lob a fair amount into my boundary hedge when the ground is like this. Can't leave it uncleared though - makes me twitchy

 

[rextherobber]

I lob a fair amount into my boundary hedge when the ground is like this. Can't leave it uncleared though - makes me twitchy

I hate leaving it, but I can totate the fields and try not to think about it!

 

[vmac66]

Hate not doing it but mud in the field gateway is,halfway up my wellies. No chance of getting a wheelbarrow through it.

 

[irishdraft]

I'm still poo picking daily but my fields aren't muddy it's more the tussocky thick grass that's the problem but I hate leaving it .

 

[Snow Falcon]

When they're in the mud, the mud can have those ones that are already half buried!!

 

[Griffin]

I am doing every couple of days but I may have to abandon tomorrow due to the wet weather.

 

[saddlesore]

I don’t know how everyone copes having poo picking as part of their daily routine ? I guess I’ve just been lucky but in 30yrs of having horses they’ve always been turned out in huge fields and rotated as needed. Kudos!

 

[windswoo]

I don’t know how everyone copes having poo picking as part of their daily routine ? I guess I’ve just been lucky but in 30yrs of having horses they’ve always been turned out in huge fields and rotated as needed. Kudos!

I'm planning on doing this when my friend's horse eventually leaves us (though hoping not yet and at 26 he looks really well), because I've then got 9 acres which is just too big for two horses. I'm then going to split it into 4 and just rotate and harrow every three months.
I can't wait until I can burn my shavings forks, but will keep the barrows.

 

[Wizardsnecklace]

I wouldn't be able to sleep if I hadn't poo picked. With only 4.8 acres for 5 ponies who live out all the time, we have to be very careful how we manage the field. We count the number we get and write it in a book. Work colleagues think I am totally mad.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I don't do it in winter the barrow won't go through the gateway, mine tend to only go on the hardstanding in winter anyway which I clear daily so there is not alot in the field anyway.

 

[Lucky Snowball]

I can’t push through the mud at present but still pick up using a skip and poo piles against the hedge. These can be picked up by machine in summer. I don’t mind poo picking in the rain as it’s too wet to ride and as soon as rain stops I’m free to ride!

 

[throwaway2022]

I wouldn't be able to sleep if I hadn't poo picked. With only 4.8 acres for 5 ponies who live out all the time, we have to be very careful how we manage the field. We count the number we get and write it in a book. Work colleagues think I am totally mad.

This is amazing! What’s the daily average?

 

[FlyingCircus]

Well, I guess there are some perks to my field flooding...the poo largely has disintegrated by the time its dry enough to bother poo picking again - so each year I have a clean slate come dry weather..!!

 

[Flowerofthefen]

Yes I still poo pick 4 a day and quite honestly I'm getting sick to death of it! The fields are terrible and trying to do it is just sapping my will to live.

 

[SEL]

I don’t know how everyone copes having poo picking as part of their daily routine ? I guess I’ve just been lucky but in 30yrs of having horses they’ve always been turned out in huge fields and rotated as needed. Kudos!

By being very organised!

I do rotate my fields but they're on this field from Nov to March (depending on weather) so if I let the poo from 3 horses build up on 2.5 acres it would be vile and no good for them or the grass.

I bought fields that hadn't been properly poo picked and the buttercups and "horse sick" areas were out of control

 

[MissTyc]

Nope, I spend about an hour an evening anally stepping tiny steps around my field, flattening out all the tracks where my horses have walked as well as poo picking. I definitely think this could get me diagnosed with some psychological defect but I haven't pursued it.

I used to do this, for decades! ... Over the last few weeks, I've started stomping poo into the mud ruts rather than picking it up in "churned mud only" areas, and I'm finding it very liberating.

 

[Wizardsnecklace]

This is amazing! What’s the daily average?

The 3 Welsh ponies in their late 20's average 7 each. The 2 Connemara ponies, 19&20 this year, 10 each. We have been home for 20 minutes after going out at 5.50 am with headtorches to feed hay to the Connies and Simple Systems Haycare to the Welsh ponies who can't eat hay because of their teeth. Blowing a gale and raining and several lakes have appeared overnight.

 

[Wizardsnecklace]

Yes I still poo pick 4 a day and quite honestly I'm getting sick to death of it! The fields are terrible and trying to do it is just sapping my will to live.

We poo pick 5 times a day. My husband does 2 on his own and we do 3 together. Hard work, but very rewarding when the vet and random people walking by congratulate you on how fantastic the fields look.We also make about 175 small bales of hay from the middle of the field which isn't grazed during the summer. It is also helpful our field is next door to the house, so very easy to pop out.

 

[mini_b]

Yep! I have 15 horses living out, and poo picking stops the moment that the ground gets slushy. As soon as it dries up, I get the fields harrowed and rolled, then poo pick daily throughout the dry season.

this is what we do

 

[SantaVera]

fields are to wet and yucky for poo picking at the moment i just let the rain wash it in and the horses tread it in