How often do you poo pick your field?

I do it daily, with four horses I dont want it turning into a huge task by leaving it, and it gives me the chance to check the fencing and check the fields for foreign objects which the foxes like to leave in the fields!
 
Twice a day in summer, once a day in winter. Che has his own paddock (about 2 acres) so doesnt take long and gives me the chance to check fences, rabbit holes etc. Its actually quite a nice time to have a mooch and a think, if Che isnt busy eating he usually wanders round with me, helpfully grabbing the poop scoop and flinging it about.
 
The ones in very small starvation paddocks get done every other day, the ones in bigger paddocks get done once per week (with our Terra Vac vacuum) and the ones in fields just get rotated and harrowed.
 
As on a small acreage (3 acres) with two large horses, I usually when good weather try to do a wheelbarrow morning and night which clears the field. If I leave it a few days, then it becomes a real chore. If I left it to once a week, I would be spending at least four or five hours on it which I'd rather being doing fun things.

However, at the moment I have two yearlings instead on the field - their poos are so easy in comparison. Think poo picking depends on your acreage and also size of your horses poos! I would have no grazing if I left it with my two large lads.

If I had large acreage, I would not poo pick to be honest.
 
We have 4 (2 big horses and 2 small ponies) on a track system, we do it at least once a day, depending on what we are both working. Some days one will do in the morning and one in evening. I can't stand seeing poo everywhere!
 
Ours gets done twice a day, it's quicker & easier than letting it pile up for ages & having to have an epic session on it once a week :)
 
Enfys said:
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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Ditto basically. I don't have as many horses, or the acreage, but do have the day-job which pays the bills PLUS have my 91 y.o. mother to look after, so if fields don't look as immaculate as they should then thats too bad.

Its my own land anyway, and my two horses are turned out with sheep, so apart from going out with a rake and scattering it (same as a harrow) - I tend to let the sheep tread it in and/or scatter it, and the crows can have what they want (god knows what!!!).

Some may criticise my regime, and no doubt will, but hey, I've gotta life apart from poo-picking ;)
 
PucciNPoni said:
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.
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Wow, you lucky thing! One wheelbarrow per week! I do our four twice a day and get one - one and half barrow loads each time.
 
in the winter when I have 3 on 6 acres, once a week. in the summer when they are in paddocks from 1 acre to 2 acres then I try to do it at least every other day-daily when they are in small paddock. I took over 12 acres 18 months ago that had not been cleared in 3 years-paddocks were knackered and sick.
 
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