Poo Picking. How and how often?

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Enfys

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Kind of following on from the vacuum poo picker question, I wondered how often you all clean your fields, and for those of you with large fields do you bother at all or just harrow?
 
My front paddock is driving me mad........unless poo is still steaming it freezes to the ground, I can't do a thing in there and I hate it looking so messy. At least skipping out the run in is easy, frozen dollops! My revolting puppy loves "Shitsicles" (as my vet calls them
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I was reading some info on a link to the grass sickness org website and apparently soil disturbance should be minimised.

I just thought I'd mention it as it seems sort of relevant and having been the victim of grass sickness I would do all I could in the future to minimise the risk
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I never poo pick. Can't do it in the winter as poos become solid and frreze to the ground within about 10 mins of being laid.

I don't the rest of the year as I harrow every week or so. I have large fields so there is no need to pick.
 
my set up is a little weird, when in winter field we do not pooh pick, then they move to the summer paddocks of which there are 3, rested alternatley, we pooh pick in the summer but throw to the edges and then harrow when summer one being rested. and they in other summer one !!! Hope makes some sort of sense !!!

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I have 2 and a half acres all year so poo pick at least every other day, if not every day...depending on when I get home from work and the light.
 
My small paddock at home gets poo picked everyday. My big field (15 ish acres) get harrowed. If I need to poo pick that at all I use the Gator. Everyone with land should have one!
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I get daughter to drive it and I walk behind chucking the poo in. The back tips so you just need to back it up to your muck heap and hay presto. No more back ache
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With a pair of industrial rubber gloves and the faithful wheelybarrow, Every night in the winter when they come in and morning and night during the summer when they are out 24/7 no matter what the weather!
 
we do ours weekly in winter and every day or every other day in summer. we clear the whole paddock each time. we get 3 to 4 wheel barrow fulls per week from 2 ponies and a horse in winter when doing it once a week. I have a 'thing' about poo picking and have to clear the paddock at least once a week, I can't bear them eating near poos!!!
 
I rent a field from my next door neighbours who are obsessed with the whole poo picking thing. They have one horse and seem to pick it up pretty much after everytime it has pooed! I do mine every evening (honestly daren't leave it longer than that as I think they would have a minor coronary!).
 
I know it may be a little late for you all. I use a company called Equiserve, they are based in Lancashire. They come once a week to collect the muck off my fields. The fields look really well once they have been. They use a machine that sweeps the muck up. Reason I know this is because they sweep around my midden when thay have finnished. You never know it might help somebody. This is the website from their business card they left me. www.equineserve.co.uk
 
Every evening however if I cant be bothered to do it I dont stress and just do two lots the next evening. I never leave it longer than 3 or 4 days. I harrowed this winter as they have the run of a 3acre field, however this year I might have three horses (two mares and wearnling) on that so will prob continue poo picking as it isnt big enough.
 
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