Poo-picking who does it on your yard???

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How sad am I? Poo picking is one of the jobs I miss, now I`m ponyless.

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Pity you are not closer you could come and poo pick till your hearts content.
 
We have to do 4 barrows a week per horse when out 24 x 7 or 2 if they are only out during the day and write down on a chart what we have done and when we did it.

We are on a very small yard so this works.

My two have their own field and when out 24 x 7 they do 8 - 10 barrows a week between them to keep the field clear. I therefore poo pick and clear the field at least 5 days a week in summer to avoid hours of trudging at a weekend.
 
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I think some people are getting away lightly tho, my mare produces a barrow a day ie. 7 a week!
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Agree with this fully! As I said earlier in the thread - my cob produces about 2 wheelbarrow fulls a day. Today I have done 36 hours' worth of poo-picking as it was too dark last night when I got to the yard. There were 51 poos and it took 3 wheelbarrows. My back's done in!
 
Yard manager poo picks the paddocks of the full liveries and DIYers (like me) do their own.

When I was on holiday for 2 wks and ponies were on full livery the YM poo picked my paddock (and I paid for it along with the full holiday livery).
 
we all chip in and do a bit, I'm on full livery in the week so YO does it but over weekends and school hols when i am not working we all do a couple of wheelbarrows a day, or we hitcha trailer onto YO's 4x4 and go out on Mass and blitz the whole field, can be quite fun!
 
Our yard is only diy and the horses are out in groups of 3 or 4. People are meant to muck out their own fields but some liveries do it more than others. We used to have a rota for our field but since me getting another horse the ratio is different and I'm finding that I appear to be doing more than my fair share - I have found this happens at most yards I'm at! Most weeks I am doing 7-8 heaped barrows and this week (as I did none last week being too busy with work) I have already done 12 barrows! Thank god my sister came to give me a hand!
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i have to say that i think this is a YM's job- regardless of whether its a DIY yard or not. if you think when you pay your rent every week this is for facilities eg. a stable, use of the arena etc. in this i consider the maintenance of the place to be YM's job- so if the fence is broken it should be fixed etc and poo picking fields should be YM's job too. the only way i would say otherwise is if people have individual paddocks- then i think its the individual's job. in my field, for example, there are about 8-10 horses but it changes quite a bit so it would be impossible to organise a workable rota. call me spoilt but if i wanted to poo pick i'd rent/buy my own yard.....
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Half the problem is that we don't have a YO. It is just a farm and we are pretty well left to sort everything out ourselves. Everyone who comes on is told that they have to help do it, but that is all. It is only recently that every horse (split across 4 paddocks) has been put on the same worming regimen, and that was only because a couple of us pointed out that it was asking for trouble since horses are sometimes moved to different fields for whatever reason. I based my calculation of 2 barrows per week on my own horse's output. She does 7 piles in 24 hours generally, so thats 49 piles per week. It takes 22 piles to fill a standard builders barrow and still be able to shove it comfortably through the winter mud. I'm doing 3 sessions per week (although the barrows aren't necessarily full if someone else has already been out) and my horse is now only out 8.30 am to 6pm. At night she has reduced her output to a single pile so I can't believe she is doing much more outside in a similar period. Now the clocks have changed I do a morning run while oss eats her breakfast. It gives me the chance to check the fencing, look for broken glass in the fields and see how the grass is holding up. It only takes 20 minutes. It makes me so mad that so many people think that is time consuming and hard work.
 
we are DIY and each of us has an agreed area in the field to keep clear so its easily spotted if one is not doing it.. Poo's have to be picked at least every other day but I have to do it daily
 
We have our own paddocks so find it relatively easy if I do it every day even with 3 horses! It's yard rules to keep the fields clear but would do it anyway.
 
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