Poo picking wet fields...??

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Today I thought I'd best have a bash at poo picking, the paddock my horses are on at the min is minimal in size and I haven't done it since the snow, but luckily they all poo in one corner so I loaded the wheelbarrow and then to my disappointment realised I couldn't actually push it because the ground is still so wet. So now I have a barrow full of wet poo in the middle of the field and can imagine that my shet has taken great delight in scratching her bum on it.

How do you do your poo picking in this weather?? Do you just leave it, or harrow it through in spring or what?
 
I have been putting as much as I can in the hedge and then with the rest on half filling barrows so I can get through the mud in the gateway. I suppose if you really can't get out you can either make a poo pile in the field if you can push around most of the mield OK, then clear once field is drier. Or if struggle to move around the field then use tub-trugs, either carrying to empty or leave around field to gather up once drier.
 
Same here use a tub trug and dump it in the hedge round most of the field, only use the wheelbarrow for the bit in the middle - roll on summer I say !!
 
Good idea with the Trugs! Thanks! I'll take some up there tomorrow and fertilise the hedges, lol. It's only the winter trash paddock so won't be used again til October, I'm just frustrated that I went to the trouble of doing it then had to abandon ship mid effort!
 
Against my will I've had to leave it. My winter paddock flooded and is trashed completely. I can't push or pull an empty barrow forget about a full one. It will be harrowed and rolled ASAP and horses moved onto a pickable field where normal duties will resume! It's the first time ever I've been unable to poo pick
 
The patch with the poo on it is the only bit that's not completely churned up though, and I put their hay out on it so their feet are a little drier, hence wanted to poo pick. Alas, I'll go at it with the tug trug tomorrow and see how far I can get. It's only a few weeks worth, but with 2 horses and a pony eating 10 scoops of hard feed and two bales of hay between them every day...
 
I too use a tub trug and empty it in the hedges, theres not a chance I'd get a wheelbarrow up the field with the state they're in, its hard enough walking up it solo so I dread to think what would happen if accompanied by a barrow of poo! :rolleyes:
 
Irishbabygirl said:
I pull the barrow rather than push if it gets stuck...or ask a strong man!
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ditto this^^


we do it every day always wheel to muck hill I will not put in in banks here.


we pull it through the gateways and slushy bits and fill it half way then empty. its to mucky for tractor as it will churn the field
 
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I've been chucking it in the hedge one end and over the fence into the barrow the other end. Taking ages. Goes against the grain not to poo pick. Muscles hurt though :)
 
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I have a pile at each end of field along the hedgerows (2 acres), leave it for a few days and do about a half acre at a time, can usually get half a barrow or sometimes two barrows depending which bit I'm doing and how much mud to plough through! It's a manageable amount that way and I'm just about keeping on top of it!
 
I've been soldiering on - using the pulling rather than pushing method. It's awful and I come back inside dripping in sweat, but try to think of it as a workout....
 
Unless you have plans for carrying heavier weight than poo, cutting the front 'hoop' off your wheelbarrow means that mud doesn't get stuck between it and the wheel and thus much easier to push.

A top tip from soggy but now sunny Portugal :D
 
my field isn't too wet, so I caught up with snow poo picking today! got 4 barrows last sunday, a barrow every morning this week and 7 barrows today! when i have got stuck before I've pushed and got someone else to pull the front for me! but theres nothing worse than fighting through mud! I remember spending 15 mins on my own, trying to get out of what felt like sinking mud!
 
I also use a tub trug - I do it everyday so its not too heavy but I would just keep on back and forth with tub trugs if there was a lot. If you fill two up 3/4 and carry one in each hand it balances you out much better than carrying just one heavy one!
 
I have a larger two wheeled wheelbarrow which copes better than the single wheeled ones.
I start at the far end and work in a straightish lie heading to the gate.
As soon as it gets difficult to push, usually at about half full, I go to the gate, empty it and start again. Because I was working up towards the gate I am usually not to far when I start to struggle.
There are a couple of boggy patches I now know to avoid but can park on the edge and bring poos over on a folk.

Still a nightmare job though
 
We have 5 at home at the moment and they are out in large paddocks that we use for hay so we dont poo pick , just harrow and roll in the spring (sheep are on it aswell) . One pony is at a friends so we do strugle with dragging a barrow through the mud up there
 
I must say my hedges and fence lines bloom in the spring from the amount of poop that gets chucked into them over winter, field is sloped so top half is easy, bottom half is easy but by heck impossible to wheel up the middle bit so borders either side looking lush......
 
I have given up!! can't move the wheelbarrow through the mud and most of the poo is either washed away or mixed with mud anyway The paddock will endure 4 more weeks of use until I move him to the rested one in march so I have given up worrying about it!
 
Mine are pretty much hanging out at the stables all day and pooing there so there's very little in the field. I do the fields every few days. In summer it's twice a day!
 
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