How often do you poo pick your field?

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As above. I've got one horse in a starvie on a livery yard. He lives in at night (only out from 7 am to 3pm). I poo pick thoroughly once a week. I wonder if that's enough? :eek: Takes me about 30 minutes to do - mainly cos he scatters it from one end of the paddock to the other.
 
i find it easier to do it daily

my routine involves getting the horse in, standing him outside his stable while i go and poo pick (10 mins a day) and then muck out his stable!

On the days i havent managed to due to lack of time etc, then i find it so much harder the day after as the damn birds tend to spread it all around!
 
Mine is living out on restricted turnout although he has got the option of going in his stable if he wants too (which he now seems to think is his own private on-suite facilities :D).

I find it easier to do it each morning whilst he is eating his breakfast, takes 10 minutes max.
 
I do our fields daily - with three of them out there it can build up quite quickly, and the birds like to scatter it about if I leave it there too long which drives me mad! I do the stables in the morning and the fields in the evening (sometimes other way round in winter as poo picking by torch light is a bit challenging!)
 
Every day . . . there are three horses in our field so that's three liveries plus one sharer . . . we divvy up so that each owner does two days/week and sharer does one . . . takes 10 mins max. We do it in the evenings and I love seeing a clean field every morning.

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I do it weekly - mine is out with 7 others so we all do it once a week but on different days.

It takes me about 45 mins at the moment as there is little grass and they are mostly out 7am-6pm (a few live out 24/7). We've calculated that they are doing 1.5 barrows each per week so that is what we are doing per horse (so the livery that has 3 horses in that field does 4.5-5 barrows and I do 1.5-2)

When we have more grass mine will be muzzled by night and in during the day so I don't do that much more than now (usually 3 barrows max) and those unmuzzled living out 24/7 do 5 barrows.

If they weren't in a herd I'd do it daily - but its more satisfying to do a few barrows at a time and usually means I get to clear the field.

I think I have OCD with it though :o
 
Try to do it daily, but never leave it longer than two days. The longer you leave it e more likely you are to get stale grass. 5 minute job to do it daily.
 
Daily. I can't BEAR it when the birds spread it or worse.... those horrid little black beatles suck all the poo-juice out of it then go back into the ground and leave dried, un-pickable flat mulch behind!!!
 
Never.

I worked it out roughly, I have, on average 25 horses here on 40+ acres.
If each horse dungs 10 times a day then that is 250 piles to pick up daily, in addition to mucking out, feeding, starting youngsters, caring for other animals, bottle feeding babies, property maintenance, a house and family to care for - there isn't time to do it, and although I like spotless fields as well as the next person, I don't have the inclination either. If I had just one or two horses and a smaller acreage then maybe I would.

God bless my quad and the harrow.:D
 
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daily ish. But this is only in the toilet areas, and within reasonable barrow distance of the stables. Last year we got a field 4x4 and trailer, so can now to a job lot across the field too.

We have 5 horses on a v hilly 6 acres, my time is worth too much to spend too long doing that! We get it harrowed and rolled at least once a year.

I have my number on the noticeboard of a local allottment group, so they come and take it off my hands :)
 
Try to do it daily only takes about 10 mins then - if cant do 1 day will make sure its done the next day- I dont like dirty paddocks
 
Weekly. She tends to go in one area so it takes approx 30 mins. Works out quite well, I chuck her breakfast in and let her eat in peace while I poo pick. Might have to do it more often when we go to 24/7 turn out
 
Enfys said:
How big is your paddock?:eek: It would take me that time just to walk from one end to the other in some of my paddocks, let alone zigzagging around on a search the pile mission.
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Unfortunately a number of us on here are not such a good position as you Enfys :(
I'd love to have bigger acreage - and did so up till 10 yrs ago when I had an additonal 12+ acres next door & I also harrowed in then, but since cutting down in numbers its been easier to maintain just my own land (where I don't live as no planning), hence the 2 x per day.

Am on one hand v jealous of you, but sometimes when I read your posts about the harsh winters etc or the odd destroying animal (I remember the miles of fencing thread where it had chipmunked lumps out of just about every post! :eek: ) I'm not envious at all :p
 
Hardly ever. 5 horses on 15 acres so even tho our hay comes of it too there's enough land to rotate & harrow. Fat paddock is about 20x 60 tho, so if that's in use every day.
 
Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. My boy has his own paddock, and he (very helpfully) does his business in one place, virtually on top of each other, so it doesn't take long!
 
hmmm, maybe I should be doing mine more often then. It definitely is necessary to do at least once a week but I only get a single (large) wheel barrow's worth out each time I do. We do worm counts too, and has never had to be wormed outside of doing the red-worms twice a year.
 
Every two days now she is out, weey when she was in at night due to time/ light. It is the job I hate most. Pony is out with babies in a massive field which gets harrowed occasionally and often floods. After a flood ( next to river) there is no poo left!!
 
Everyday without fail


I couldnt leave it to fester



a. looks a mess
b doesnt take long
c less grazing
d part of owning or renting a place keep fields healthy and grazing good.


I consider it lazy not to pick it up IMO

I think if you have larger fields and more horses you should invest in a poop picker upper or get someone who you pay to come in with theirs, or employ kids to do it


A GOOD TIP TO PICK UP once birds have spread it is a plastic leave rake it rakes it into a pile then you use poop scoop




I have 11 horses here which I have to muckout feed hay etc all on part 1 on DIY , foster cats to look after boarding cats to look after property maintenance to do a house and hubby to care for shirts to iron, shopping to buy
horse feed to buy, dog to walk , horses to exercise fencing to creosote

I still find time to do 3 fields to de poo .

To me whats the point in your yard looking tidy stables and horses beds looking good when the fields are a mess?



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