Droppings in School

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Do you have to collect your horse's droppings from the school when you have finished working in there? I think this is perfectly reasonable, our yard has 2 signs up around the arena requesting that this is done. There is one full livery who never seems to do this, and she spends the bulk of the time in the school. Personally I feel that is totally disrespectful to the menage owners/YO.

Also if on full livery would you clear up any mess (droppings/hoof pickings) etc your horse leaves in the yard. I do but some people just walk away and leave it for staff to clear up!
 
I always clean up my horses droppings from the school and I also clean up any other horses' droppings too because I like to see the school looking clean. My pony is on full livery but I still skip out her stable every day and sweep up any hoof picking dirt etc. I can't understand how anyone can leave a mess on someone else's property. It is definitely disrespectful.
 
Well, if you're on full livery, I suppose you could make a good case for why it's OK to leave them for someone else like a "mere groom" to clean up later. For the DIY's, they should pick them up. I guess it's up to the YO to say something about it to the person concerned.

I keep mine at a DIY yard, so can't offer an opinion really. But speaking as a groom, when I worked on a livery yard, it really really used to annoy me when the liveries left their hoof pickings all over my just swept yard as I was about to head home (I used to suspect they waited until I'd swept it and put the broom away before they picked out their horses hooves lol)
 
DIY or otherwise, I think it is disrespectful and lazy not to clear up after your horse.
 
As a YO I expect my livery owners to clean up after their own horse when they are using their horse.
That is if they are riding horse then they should clean up after it in school or remove hoof pickings or use skip when doing feet or to leave box clean if they bring in horse to groom and it makes a mess.
My liveries are on almost full livery, in that I do everything except groom and ride.
 
yes we have to as well but there is one livery who doesnt bother. the other week there was a big debate over whose dropping it was as YO told my girls to clear 'their' droppings up and it wasnt them. was rediculous really ,would have been much quicker to just go and do it rather than stand around having a debate about whose it was!
 
I have my own yard at home (and school) and my rules for myself are always pick feet before they leave the box, before they are ridden, before they leave the school and all droppings picked up immediately! I ensure that I follow my rules every day (yes I am a little anal!)
 
Me too Hornby, plus I am fanatical about my muck heap. However, in saying that my horse never ever craps in the school!! How lucky am I.
 
If I take my guys to use work's school, I will always pick up any droppings my guys do, but then it would be me doing it later anyway.
I do try to pick up any poo asap, but sometimes no one tells me there is one in the school so if I don't go up there I miss them.
We pick out the horses feet before they leave the stable, or when they come in from the field. But not from the school as they have to walk across a field to get to the yard anyway, and when it rains half the school gets washed into the field.
 
Our yard has a very nice menage and the owners have just installed floodlights for the benefit of the liveries as most of us will be up after work schooling,i think it is just sensible to clear up after yourselves.A yard i know that has a very big posh manege had people in hiring it and because no one ever picked the droppings up the manege has been ruined and they now have to get it relined and resurfaced. Although it isn't my menage i want to keep it nice for my horse if anything,i'm a bit anal about sweeping,mucking out and picking up anyway so it's like 2nd nature to me,i've worked on some pretty demanding professional yards and once good yard management is learned it's then instilled in you forever!
 
I think if you make the mess, you should clean it up regardless of what type of livery you are on. Unfortunately not everyone agrees!
 
I have to confess that i left a poo (well not personally .. lol) in the school tonight, however i was last and chatting with the YO and asked if i could collect it in the morning (i'm up first) as she had turned the lights out and it would have taken ages to find the so called poo as we have an olympic sized arena.. She said this was fine as generally i always clean up after my horse.
 
I should be stricter about my muckheap (more rules!) but it is in a barn so I don't see it - except when I need to
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I think it is good to keep your yard in order
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Yep we do. But not everyone does it. There are always notes on the white board when there are poos. Don't think it is fair on the yard owner. Schools cos a lot of money. If it was my yard I would be the same. We also have to rake if we have lunge which is a bit of a pain but understandable.
 
This REALLY annoys me.
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We have 2 liveries who NEVER pick up poo from the arena and who never sweep up the yard or the spare stables when they've put their horses in there for feeding or whatever. I seem to spend my life clearing up after everyone and find it very irritating.
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Blimey, you sound very lenient on this one Tia...............
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Can't say I'd be happy picking other people's mess up fpr them regardless of which livery they were on........
 
Yes I always pick up droppings from the school and around the yard. When I was on full livery I swept, picked up poo etc.

It's totally disrepectful not to!
 
Also what gets me is why sweep part of the yard into a small pile.... and leave it there?!

When there is a barrow about 10 feet away i mean how hard is it to pick up said pile? or maybe even sweep a bit more (i.e. the WHOLE yard, its not that big) and pick it up and put it in the barrow??

Also when said pile gets left there the chickens throw it everywhere the next day so looks like was never swept at all anyway!!
 
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