Poo picking - please be honest

I have two horses at home. One comp horse and one companion pony.

My comp horse only goes out for about 3 hours per day (because he is a nutter if left out any longer
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) and is on a 2 acres field so I don't bother to poo pick. His field is chain harrowed every autumn.

The companion pony is on restricted grazing in the summer and I poo pick every day. Sometimes, if I'm feeling lazy I do leave it for up to four or five days and then have to spend a couple of hours doing it!

The companion pony has another 2 acre field in the winter which is harrowed in the spring.

The only suggestions that I can make to you are to section off smaller areas of the field so that the poos are all in one area. You can then rotate the fields. Try to poo pick more often - every two or three days would make it a lot less work. If you did it every day it would only take half an hour or so! As for getting back on top of it and clearing the field out comepletely, would you be able to bribe a few friends to come round and give you a hand?
 
My horses are poo picked everyday, mainly by my mother.
I poo pick the horses that are on resticted grazing or in small fields everyday but the ones in the big fields don't get done, it would take me all day! They do get harrowed though.
 
every day and every bit of it.
if you leave a poo for more than a couple of days the grass goes skanky under it.

i have 3 pons and get about 1 1/2 big barrow every day
 
My mare is out on her own so tend to poo pick every 3-4 days to keep on top of it. It doesnt take long.

A friend of mine was looking after another friends horses whilst she was on holiday. She has 8 horses living out and poo picks every day. Friend 1 said she was picking up 150 poos every day.
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Yes she was bored.
 
TBH - for me poo picking has nowt to do with worms on the pasture! I have my horses worm counted and worm accordingly. For me it's about pasture management - esp. at the new place, where the grazing is not the greatest and they don't have as much space as they had before. Studies have proven, that horses will happily eat the grass which grows where they have defecated, as long as it is picked for them - they don't like the smell of the soil, where dropping have been left. If I had 100 acres, I'd still think the same!
 
At my current yard the fields are just harrowed, where I'm going the yard staff do it in the week, at the weekend everyone has to do 1 wheelbarrow (my wheelbarrow is one of those huge ones!!)
 
twice a day every day, it only takes 10 mins. In the winter though if its peeing down in the morning then I may leave it til the evening as I don't want to go to work dripping wet.
 
We don't is the answer.
With over 40 horses I would have to employ a full time person to do the job, so we manage the pasture instead.
We rest each field periodically, preferably for a whole winter at a time, so any worms can't breed.
We occasionally harrow but more often the crows spread the dung and the worm eggs die in the sun.
Every few years we have the local ag merchant's come out and soil test and fertilise with their recommendations.
We worm four times a year and do the occasional worm count which thankfully is always negligable in the results.
In your situation I would divide the fields up into smallish paddocks and just rotate the two every few weeks. By the time you get to paddock six or eight the dung should be washed away.
Provided you worm regularly I wouldn't worry about it, poo picking is something only started the last ten years or so, and you can get round it!
 
in the summer they are out on 20 acres, no one else does it & i am not doing it for 7 horses
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little pony gets done daily or every 2nd day
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2 boys on 2+ acres and I do it every day in summer, less in winter when they're in at night. I actually find it very therapeutic and relaxing but then I should get out more!
 
I'm going to piss you off here.
I have three horses and they live out 24/7 so I poo pick morning and night every day...with the help of a friend and/or OH. I end up taking two wheelbarrows out morning and night...but my field is spotless, with no rough patches...and my horses worm counted zero...
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I do mine everyday and he does exactly 1 large crammed barrow full each time (out 24/7), so you would need to be clearing a good 7 barrows each week to keep on top of it!
 
i do it once/twice a week, if i have sectioned a field off to grow, and fertilised it i may chain harrow it but normally i clear up the whole lot.
 
We don't poo pick, we've got ummm 9 altogether (possibly getting one more this week) and they're out on about 16 acres split in to various fields. We do however worm on a regular basis and then rotate them to different fields and harrow the fields they were in. Our liveries have 3 (2 of their own and one of ours) in a smaller field and they poo pick daily.
 
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