Just for fun- what kind of horse poo picker upper are you?

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So I’m a gloves on, down on hands and knees (yes I get dirty knees), into a bucket, then into a barrow person!
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How about you?
 
I'm also a hands and knees and gloves girl. The skip has long since been given up on and it goes straight into the barrow because pony has favourite patches!
 
In the stable Iam a shaving fork with gloves picking up the left dropplets! - Barrow - muckheap.
Field its shavings folk/shovel - barrow-pile in corner that gets collected by tractor.
 
Oh I am lucky...2 young men and a large vacuum cleaner (we own the vac just hire the young men!!!) Spoilt is what I am :-))

In the stables though...shavings fork and rubber gloves for the little bits ( I am OCD....)
 
Shavings beds = gloves, skip, barrow but when lifting the bed i use my trusty old shavings fork/barrow combination
Straw bed = fork, gloves, skip/barrow i use both when i do the straw beds as little point in putting the wet into the skip
 
Deep Litter Shavings bed - shavings fork, fluff with stable fork and pick up stray poo-ettes with hands, all into barrow.

Out in the paddock - Yeah, that's poo, I'll ignore it and it'll dissolve. (I have no grazing, they have hay).
 
im another one that uses a pooper scooper in the field.Mine seem to only poo alongthe fence line, they dont poo in the middle of the field, the yearling even goes and poos beside the muck heap if shes near there, strange ponies lol
 
field only - i was a scooper for yrs, but now hve rsi in my elbow as a result, so as of this spring when we start poo picking again, i'll be donning a pair of marigolds, skip and wheel barrow.
 
Field - Pink poopicker and rake into my pink wheelbarrow
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shavings bed - rubber gloves into skip for the poos and tiny bits then shavings fork to sort out the rest of it (every day)
 
Shavings stable - shavings fork and barrow, and hands for the stragglers (I rarely bother putting gloves on
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Field - Poo picker thingy and barrow, but most of the time I let my little helpers do that.
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It's brilliant working at a riding school, there are always little girls swarming around, eager to help, that you can dump the boring jobs on.
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Stable- Straw bed so fork,wheelbarrow and muckheap which my kind farmer neighbour comes and disposes of and rubber gloves for "leftovers"
Field- Person who owns livery yard has one of those posh machine things that attach onto back of quad so nothing for me!
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The little ones shavings bed - glove and bucket - into wheelbarrow, then shavings fork to chuck up and take out wet.
Big girls deep litter shavings bed - poo scoop to take out large dollops, then shavings fork to fluff with the glove for any stragglers. (Im changing her onto lifting her bed daily!)

I dont poo pick in the winter ass they are only out for 3/4 hours and graze a 5 acre field with the sheep, in the summer they are on restricted grazing, so its poo scoop (purple!!) into barrow and them dumped in the hedge.
 
Can't stand hand and knees (eugh touching poo!)
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I use a shavings fork to put it into a barrow. Always very effective, the only exceptions being rutted ground where the fork tends to get stuck or long grass that the fork gets tangled up in. But I struggle on regardless!
 
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field only - i was a scooper for yrs, but now hve rsi in my elbow as a result, so as of this spring when we start poo picking again, i'll be donning a pair of marigolds, skip and wheel barrow.

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I get that with my elbow during the summer when I poo-pick every day! Also get a pain in my right shoulder from weilding the scraper tool. If it's not that it'll be backache from bending down for it. Poo-picking should carry a health warning!
 
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