Do you poo pick?

[MizElz]

Does whether or not you do poo pick depend on the size of the field and nature of the turnout, ie. if its a very big or very small field, if there are other horses turned out there, if there are cows/goats/sheep etc.

Just curious!

 

[I_A_P]

i normally do so around once a week

 

[vanessahook]

My girl is out 24/7 with my best friends horse, i poo pick every time i go up and clear the field completely at the weekend.

 

[BeckyD]

I usually do about once a week. I was on one yard years ago where we didn't have to as the yard staff did it. Otherwise I always have and always will.

 

[kerilli]

small paddocks, i do at least once a day, i'm really fussy and hate them not looking pristine. the really big field with just a few horses in, i must admit gets away from me occasionally...

 

[lucym]

yep- every day!
the field is quiet small, and there is three horses in it, so i dont like it building up. plus its so much easier to do a quick wizz round and clear it once a day, rather than struggling with multiple wheelbarrows at the weekend.

 

[I_A_P]

i guess im lucky-in the two larger sections i normally do once a week with quadbike and trailer-sometimes in summer twice a week..or every 4/5 days

at the moment i only have one horse who is only out for half a day/.....so a lot less work!!

 

[Breezesbenefactor]

I won't ride until the field is clean, pick everyday whatever the weather

 

[ihatework]

Small paddocks with 1-3 horses in, once a week minimum.
Large fields then no, I'd be inclined to rotate and harrow.

 

[Enfys]

The small front paddock, yes. I look into it from the house, and it is the first thing anyone driving past sees, so I do keep it clear, hate to see a lumpy field! The others get harrowed.

This past week the poos have turned into concrete and have been covered by snow so I don't bother trying to prise anything up.

 

[Gorgeous George]

where I am the YO poo picks during the week, and we do a wheelbarrow each at the weekends.

 

[JenHunt]

it does depend on the field - we only have 2 horses, so i'm not going round our 12acre winter paddock! but i do all 4 little summer ones (about 3 acres each)

 

[happihorse]

In the summer I always poo pick the small fields because they are used as starvation paddocks. However, in the winter I don't bother as they get harrowed and rested for a few months before they are next used.

I never bother poo picking the large fields, because I only have one horse on them and so he moves around a lot!

 

[Sneedy]

Although I'm on part livery I still poo pick. Got a deal with the YO so instead of paying for individual t/o in a fair size paddock, I do the poo picking and ragwort pulling and generally care for the paddock. I only do it once a week tho, at the weekend.

 

[RachelB]

Mine are on eight acres so I can't poo pick, it would be silly! I hate not doing it though.
My share horse is on a smaller field and they get done twice per day (out 24/7).

 

[LouHardwick]

We do poo pick every day.
it saves us on wormers- we only have to worm 4 times a year now and the grazing is kept in tip top condition all year round

I appreciate not everyone does but a little a day is much easier than a huge amount at weekends!

 

[happyhack]

three horses turned out in our fields and we poo pick every day

 

[asbo]

do with fizz when she is in her little summer paddock, big ones no as its a 20 acre field & it would just be me & alita doing it cos no one else would

 

[Theresa_F]

I normally do 4/5 days a week in summer and once a week in winter at the weekends.

After about January I do stop on the winter field as normally by them it is a mud pit with hardly any grazing and I am putting hay out but until it is too wet and muddy I keep with the picking.

Then start up again in late April/May when they go back onto summer paddock and winter paddock is rolled for next October.

 

[gina2201]

Try and do at least 1 wheelbarrow a day, if not more the next! Out 24/7 so can't complain really as no mucking out as such!

 

[Tia]

Most of my pasture fields are 10 acres each so these are harrowed. All of my fields have dust corrals incorporated into them and no they don't get poo picked; no point.

 

[volatis]

Ours are out in large fields, between 5 and 10 acres which they get rotated round. So no we harrow and top the fields. Poo picking would be a full time job.

 

[cobwithattitude]

Every day and now in the dark with a light on the wheelbarrow or with someone holding a torch - y/o insists it is done every day and TBH i have always done it. Just need someone to invent flourscent horse fee

d.....

 

[Gentle_Warrior]

Just when in summer paddock

 

[vieshot]

nope, never actually, not once in my whole entire existance.

 

[MurphysMinder]

I've ticked always have, cos as long as I'm living here with 3 horses on under 2 acres I will have to poo pick! If ever I win the lottery and am able to buy loads more land might just rotate with sheep grazing or something, but don't suppose that will ever happen.

 

[SecretSquirrell379]

My girl is in a 1.5 acre field on her own (big 8 acre square sectioned into 4 so she has friends!!) so I poo pick once a day in the winter, there's no light after work and twice a day in the summer. I don't like the idea of poo attracting the flys into her field

I hate to see the field full of poo

 

[SpruceRI]

Poo pick the summer paddocks occasionally but don't do any in the winter.

Rotate my fields. Have 2 winter fields, 3 summer paddocks and 3 all year round paddocks.

 

[Cahill]

my ponies are in small padocks and there is a time every day when there is no poo in the field.
it takes 15mins at the most.

 

[lucylemon]

horses out = field mucked out.

whether they go out for a few hours of go out all day and night we poo pick (well the DIY'ers do, and both my loan horses are on DIY so i do too)