does anyone else poo pick with their hands?

[moodymare_1993]

i am a bit confused...i was down my yard today and the lady on the yard to my left always poo picks with gloves and puts the poos in a little skip or a poo bag..now the lady on my right is starting to do the same...

i was wondering if anyone else does this and why? is it better for the grass? surely it hurts your back to keep bending down to pick the poos up? and it must take longer to poo pick? one swipe and i can pick a whole poo up with my pooper scooper thing? and i knpow the two ladies either side of me have the same poo picker as i do?#

can anyone else shed any light on this??

 

[flirtygerty]

In the field I use a poop scoop, but mucking out a stable I use my hands,
my lad is very messy stabled, so hands are quicker and easier and much more thorough

 

[Brontie]

In the fields I'll use the poo scooper, in a stable ill use my hands. Much less wastage when using your hands to remove the poo and quicker sometimes.

 

[LeannePip]

i ppo pick with my hands and gloves and a big tub trug - we empy our buckets oover the perimeter fence into the ditch our yo dug purposfully for this its really good saves the muck heap and the ditch means the peoples horses in the field next door cant get nose to nose with our! going over the fence means we can use a wheelbarrow so its easier this way otherwise you can only get 1-2 poos in the scoop before having to tip it!

 

[abitodd]

If the grass is long or the field poached hands are much quicker and easier.

Another one here who has the luxury of over the fence disposal facilities.......just wish the horses would not poo in the middle of the field,as far away from disposal site as possible!

 

[Sarah W]

I use a rake AND gloves when picking the paddock paradise - rake for the smooth surfaces and gloves for the stoney areas and to pick up random nuggets

 

[lurcher98]

I've always used my hands, much easier in longer trampled grass

 

[Shysmum]

scoop and rake all the way !!

 

[Cortez]

Eeeoo no! Use a fork FGS, that's what they're for.....

 

[Elsiecat]

hands in gloves so much faster than using a fork I think

 

[Natz88]

When stabled I use fork & hands pick big poops up with fork then hands for the little loose bits. As for the field I use a pooper scooper or my mums cob has been well trained to go on the poo pile....

 

[missk]

I always find gloved hands easier especially on longer grass. Had the face pulling and yuks from others. They soon change their opinions when I point out it's only pooped put grass.

 

[katherine1975]

I use a scoop, rake and wheelbarrow as I have a muck heap near to the field.

My mum uses gloves and puts poos in old feed bags and disposes of them at a nearby farm as she only has 1 acre and not enough room for a muck heap.

 

[Irishbabygirl]

Rubber gloved hands all the way!

 

[touchstone]

Another who uses gloves here, my neighbour always used them and I thought it was disgusting, then I tried it and it was so much easier and more efficient. I use an ordinary bucket on its side and literally shove it in the bucket.

The only time I don't use them is when looking after my friends horse who is on fairly rich grass and can do big sloppy poos.

 

[Clodagh]

Def hands (and gloves). My back isn't great but pooper scoopers kill my wrists. Also the poo area has long grass and you just can't get it out properly.
I am a poo expert and can tell you that this is the best time of year for poo picking, it is nice and dry and clumps together! Only thing is keep your mouth shut when picking up fresh ones or you inhale loads of flies!!

 

[[69117]]

Muck sweeper - much easier. I sit on the quad or in the tractor, depending on the field I'm doing, and listen to my ipod.

Before I had the luxury of the sweeper I poo picked the starvation paddock with a barrow and skip, and the other fields were all harrowed every two weeks.

I do use gloves and hands in shavings boxes though. I take the worst out with a fork, but there are always little nuggets wafting about that hands can get much more easily than the fork!

 

[Tinsel Town]

we used to at my old yard, we had gloves and buckets, went down with a wheelbarrow, used bucket to pick poos into then tip into wheelbarrow, back breaking it was!!

 

[Rose Folly]

Always poo pick by hand. I can't persuade my liveries to do likewise. They go round with the best will in the world withh their poo forks or whatever they're called, doing a half-job of it. I can go round after and pick up another 4-5 buckets of what they've left behind. Hand picking is much more efficient, in the stable or out. In stable you save on bedding - outside you leave the cleanest field you can.

And my back, which used to be terrible when I was out of riding for 20 years, is now really really good - I put a lot of that down to poo-picking.

 

[ponypilotmum]

I rake all the poo into piles with a long forked rake (really good for the grass too!) and the kids pick it up with scoopers. Then I go round with gloves and a bucket and pick up what the scooper doesn't get. We seem to have animals that attempt to harrow their own paddocks so it's always spread everywhere!