Nearly got booted off yard!

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At risk of being slated on here I need to have a quick rant. I was poo picking my ponies field today. Only 6 poos (he hardly ever gets out bless him). I have had serious problems with my back and only poo pick on a Sunday as I can take shed loads of strong painkillers after. The field is so muddy - it looks ploughed and really welly sucky! The field had a massive poo pile at the back of it which was there when I moved in, which is now covered in nettles and weeds. Sam only does his poos on here so I tipped 3 over the fence onto another (existing) poo pile and was about to carry the other three to the main muck heap about a 300 yd walk away through mostly mud. Wheelbarrows cannot get through the mud and my back would probably give out completely!
The YO husband appeared and threatened me with eviction in 24 hrs if I was ever so lazy again. He didn't want to hear about the poo piles already being there, or of the mud/wheelbarrow situation.
I am leaving in 4 weeks anyway, so tempted to do what the other livery that is leaving is doing - leaving her poo picking! But they have my deposit and I can't afford to loose £100 or completely knacker my back!!!
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You bad, bad person you. Go straight to the naughty corner and stay there! :mad:

I very rarely muck pick in winter as I can't get a wheelbarrow to the field. My YM is fine with that. If you are lazy, what on earth does that make me :eek:

You're better off out of it and I hop your new yard is much nicer :)
 
if they were that bothered about you not using the 'correct' poo pile, why are they allowing exisiting poo piles to continue to be in existance?!?! if it wasnt there in the first place you wouldnt go and create a new one! they should clear up the exisiting ones then they can insist all poo goes to a certain place- pot-kettle-black?!?! :) :)
 
I simply cannot get my head round the idea that clients do the field maintenance. Our horses are at home and we don't 'poo-pick'. We take the field vac round occasionally and cross-graze.
But we were at DIY livery for years. We did sometimes do emergency fencing but ALL other field maintenance was the YO's responsibility and he would have been horrified if we had started doing it. He didn't 'poo-pick' either, he harrowed. He also made sure that every horse had a plentiful supply of fresh water. I do wonder what some YO's think they are being paid for.
 
digger66 said:
Popcorn isn't allowed, but a big bag/wheelbarrowful of Pick'n'mix should do nicely.

I don't think I disagree with Jesstickle, but if you're going to attempt the job - do it properly.
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You can disagree if you like. I'm one of the nice ones, I rarely lose my temper. Only under very extrememe circumstances anyway!

You should have seen me trying to push a battery for my fence up the walkway to my field last week. I was puffing and panting and swearing at the wheelbarrow, god, anyone and anything. I think for everyone's sake that it's better if I leave the muck there until spring! lol

I'll find you a photo of my mud so you can see why I don't even try!

would you try and push a wheelbarrow full of horse poo through this in the dark? (and this is only 2/3 of the distance I have to go as well, just so you know!)

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Next time, I would talk to those in charge about your bother. A girl who shares my husbands 17.2 can't push the barrow up the ramp to the trailer because of her back, but she leaves it at the bottom and we are quite happy to do it for her. It's always better to approach the subject rather than trying to get around it, and last year after the snow, we put down planks of wood here and there to help people out, as the ground was so wet, it was hard work shoving the barrows through the mud but can only do it if people ask. (We had two liveries, but they have sold their horses on now)

I'm sure you will find people more accommodating if you just ask them.

Hope your move to your new yard goes well.
 
Jesstickle- thats a horrible route!! you should see ours! its a lot worse! and yea getting a wheelbarrow through it to hay the horses is a livin nightmare!!! :rolleyes:
 
:D I'm with JT - I only do my field when it's not muddy - and only then as I don't have the space not to poo pick all year!

I'd love to know what yard you're on. I've had a few altercations with YOs in Essex about similar matters... :p
 
jesstickle said:
You can disagree if you like. I'm one of the nice ones, I rarely lose my temper. Only under very extrememe circumstances anyway!

You should have seen me trying to push a battery for my fence up the walkway to my field last week. I was puffing and panting and swearing at the wheelbarrow, god, anyone and anything. I think for everyone's sake that it's better if I leave the muck there until spring! lol

I'll find you a photo of my mud so you can see why I don't even try!

would you try and push a wheelbarrow full of horse poo through this in the dark? (and this is only 2/3 of the distance I have to go as well, just so you know!)

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Our field is similar to your lane and although the mud isn't deep it's v slippery. We don't pooh pick when it's like this either, though might do if it freezes solid.:eek:
However if you have a livery contract and have agreed that you will - you should. I like Dragonslayer's advice to discuss the matter before being discovered tipping a barrow load over the fence.
 
digger66 said:
Our field is similar to your lane and although the mud isn't deep it's v slippery. We don't pooh pick when it's like this either, though might do if it freezes solid.:eek:
However if you have a livery contract and have agreed that you will - you should. I like Dragonslayer's advice to discuss the matter before being discovered tipping a barrow load over the fence.
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I can't argue with that :) I'm really lucky that my field is practically mud free. Once I battle through this my horses get to spend the day in a nice dry field, well relatively. I can testify that pushing a barrow through it is no joke though. I thought I was going to give myself a hernia or a heart attack or something! :eek:
 
JFTD said:
I have the solution to that...

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Brilliant!

Meals on legs! :D

Am lucky in that I have a lack of mud :o cos there is only mine these days. Still have some, but not like Jessstickles army tank-track! :eek:

Have also got shirty with a DIY'er who was supposed to clear her paddocks at least once a week, who lobbed piles over fences into next doors fields of longer grass or pile it up behind a tree cos she 'couldnt be bothered' to barrow it to the yard across half an acre... in the summer!!
 
JFTD said:
I have the solution to that...

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:D I used to do that, a mile up the side of a mountain with a 12h welshie carrying 4 nets. She was excellent!

That mud track is awful, I'd forgotten what real mud looks like.

I would be kicked off half the yards you lot are on as there is no way I would even attempt to clear paddocks in those conditions. It is thoroughly unreasonable of a YO to expect anyone to push a barrow about in those conditions - looking to be getting themselves sued for injury caused if you ask me.

ps...sleds (or even a tarp or plastic sack) work just as well for delivering hay in mud as they do in snow;) Much easier to pull than push.
 
jesstickle said:
I love Jay! Emma (the ginger one in my similar photo) was far too dignified for that! She was such a princess! :D
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haha bless her! She's also carrying much daintier hay nets :o

J has no standards. If it's food, it's food, he doesn't care how he gets it :D
 
Do you have a contract, if you do what does the contract state about poo picking. If you have signed a contract then you have agreed to abide by what it says.
 
KateandSpotlight said:
if they were that bothered about you not using the 'correct' poo pile, why are they allowing exisiting poo piles to continue to be in existance?!?! if it wasnt there in the first place you wouldnt go and create a new one! they should clear up the exisiting ones then they can insist all poo goes to a certain place- pot-kettle-black?!?! :) :)
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Agree with this
 
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