ARE YOUR FIELDS POOH-PICKED? *Please answer*

What do you like to wear around the yard on your feet, ie yard work rather than riding

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Please explain why in each case?

Thankyou.
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Field is poo-picked every day, three horses and three owners so we do two days a week each in the summer. Just so it's kept nice and clear
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In the winter though we'll either take a weekend in turn to clear it or just everyone goes out to get a wheelbarrow out. Just because the two others in the field work 9-5, so it's easier for them to leave it until the weekend, rather than do it in the dark!
 
I dont poo pick, the yard does.

I didn't do the poll as there wasn't an option for my answer!

Sorry!! Just relised that I cant read- I have answer yes!
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We poo pick in Winter when we don't have as much grazing and would like to avoid horse sick patches, but in Summer we have too much grazing, and fields are rotated, with resting fields being harrowed when we've got a few days of sunshine. Horses and land are privately owned, so no new horses to worry about, and worming regime managed by one person. Last 3 times the worm count has come back very low (i.e. no need to worm)
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We never used to, but we do now as 9 ponies in 3or 4 acres make a mess!

We do it every weekend we aren't competeing.
 
At my yard the horses live out in a herd of 10 so the fields are poo picked twice a day on a rota - each person does it once every 5 days.
 
no poo picking for me!! the fields are far to big so they get harrowed instead!! my poop scoop has been retired since i moved to the yard am on 2 years ago!!
 
Poo pick every day in summer. And weather permitting during the colder months. In winter it is done at the weekend, as it is too dark after work.
 
Every other day: its just my horse in a paddock, and I know that if I do it every other day, thats exactly one barrowful to take back to the muck heap....leave it any longer and its two trips!
 
Yes. Every day. As I don't want grass sick fields. Someone near us lost 3 horses due to grass sickness and another one is still not right this was over a year ago. Grass sickness seems to be on the increase as peeps don't manage and keep the grazing properly IMO only.
 
Poverty paddock is picked out everyday by hand and the fatty paddock is picked out once a month.

Stupid thing is we have to do it by hand though the livery YO recently brought a machine thing to do it and he keeps it locked up so no one can use it.
 
We have around 40 horses on 107 acres.
The grazing is rotated and some fields are rested after haymaking right through until the following spring when they are grazed for just a month then rested again.
We try to rest every field periodically so the worms can't find a host to continue their life cycles.
If anyone would like to poo pick for 40 horses feel free!
I laugh at the self satisfied people who boast they would never keep their horses on anything but a totally clean field.. Fine with a small paddock and few horses but if I poo picked here I would do nothing else with my life..
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When any fields here get sour looking it's time to rest them and let them recover, between the birds and the harrow then enough time to grow again they soon come back to normal.
One of the most fascinating things I learned from keeping my horse at home in our garden was he conserved his grazing himself by only dunging on the cabbage patch. he used to walk backwards and deposit it on the square about 20 wide, never went anywhere else at all.
 
Moast days in summer. winter its the weekend, as it is too dark before and after work
4 horses, winter and summer paddocks, so they get a rest for several months too
 
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HH apparently worms can lie dormant for over 10 years?
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worms can lie dormant.... but what else are people with more than one acre meant to do?

If you worm accordingly and allow the fields to rest then there is no problem. I know someone who NEVER poo picks and doesnt rest their land at all... and they tried having one of those worm counts done on selected horses and their worm counts came back very low.
 
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We poo pick in Winter when we don't have as much grazing and would like to avoid horse sick patches, but in Summer we have too much grazing, and fields are rotated, with resting fields being harrowed when we've got a few days of sunshine. Horses and land are privately owned, so no new horses to worry about, and worming regime managed by one person. Last 3 times the worm count has come back very low (i.e. no need to worm)
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Pretty much the same except we don't poo pick in Winter either, just move the horses and harrow.
 
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One of the most fascinating things I learned from keeping my horse at home in our garden was he conserved his grazing himself by only dunging on the cabbage patch. he used to walk backwards and deposit it on the square about 20 wide, never went anywhere else at all.

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Our guys used to be in a rented field with patches of dockens. They used the docken patches as toilets, no the good grazing.
 
I have a paddock at my yard for my anti social boy and I pick up the poo every day, it takes about 2 mins with my tub and rubber gloves. We do have a terra vac at our yard but I like doing it everyday. My horse has a history of past worm damage and colic so it's peace of mind for me.
 
Only do the two small paddocks at the front of the house. Apart from the other reasons I hate looking out at piles of poo and it looks so untidy from the road.
The others get harrowed as and when.
 
When grazing is limited I think paddocks need poo picking. As for harrowing, this will work in hot climates but it doesn't get hot enough most of the time in this climate to kill off the worms after harrowing. All it does is spread the worm problem all over the paddocks.
 
Everyday. There are three horses and we have a rota system. This has worked quite well so far and everyone involved has been o.k to swop 'shifts' if need be. My horse is now on schooling livery for three weeks so I poo picked today and then won't have to do it for a while - bliss! We poo pick every day as I hate seeing poo filled fields and last year was a nightmare with previous field mates. I can't say that they never poo-picked, as they could have come up a different times to me, but I used to take out 14 barrows during the week and that seemed an awful lot for my one horse to be doing if the other two horses' owners were doing the same for theirs'!
 
I am lucky at present yard as we have a sweeper, it's normally done every one to two weeks by the the YO but we can do it in between if we want to.
 
yard policy is that poo picking is done daily by owners on a rota ie one 5 horses in field i poo pick every 5th day , i have 4 horses in 3 different fields , so i keep a list of which one i need to do lol
 
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