Poo picking?

[Enfys]

I only do the boys small paddocks (1 acre and half acre)
Generally every day, hate seeing piles of muck from my kitchen window and they are right by the road so I like them to look tidy-ish. Harrow the bigger fields as and when I feel like it.

I use a quad and trailer, I don't have mud to contend with, but I'm blowed if I am pushing a barrow half a mile to the current muck heap or even around the paddocks, why push when I can drive? I use rubber gloves and muck bucket, actually, at the moment I have a surplus of those long plastic examination gloves so I use them! Takes about 30 minutes to do both but that includes putting in hay/water and doing the run in sheds as well.

In winter I don't do it at all, because it freezes solid as it hits fresh air and gets buried in the snow anyway. The paddock is a mess in Spring but I scrape the worst bits with the tractor bucket once the snow has gone and harrow when it has thawed.

 

[SaffronWelshDragon]

4 horses (well 1 shetland x so 3 1/2 horses!) Poo-pick once a day - 2 wheelbarrows to clear the field takes around 30 mins. Tends to be a bit of a nightmare in the winter so will poo-pick a few times a week. I always use gloves, but my sister prefers the snow shovel type thing (you probably know the bright orange type).

 

[Barleyboo]

Paddocks cleared every day with rubber gloves and a wheelbarrow. 3 ponies equals one full barrowload a day and takes about 15 mins - 20 mins.
If the ground is frozen/snowy I wear my saferider boots, one good kick with the steel toecaps and the poo comes up in one piece. Easy!

 

[jcberry]

why dont you poo pick 3 times a week say, and put the poo in a pile in the corner of the field then at weekends move the pile

 

[Hippona]

QR...I poo-pick once a week...monday evening is designated poo-picking time on our yard as the horses move fields on a tuesday morning....but this time of year I have to poo-pick on a sunday.

3 barrows per horse...so thats 9 for me.

Takes about an hour max.

I use one of those scoops with a metal rake thing....

Wear gloves.....and pay a child to push the barrows to the pooheap

In time you will become a hard-core speed poo-picker

 

[Hippona]

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Anybody ever wondered how these conversations look to non horsey people? They make perfect sense and seem completely normal to us but this one made me giggle when I read through and imagined what they might think, two whole pages of discusion about picking up poo
It reminds me of when we got our puppy and had conversations every day about when he poo'd, what colour his poo was and how often and thought nothing of it to the extent that we would sometimes forget we were in public and getting rather strange looks from people. Apparently discussing poo at length is a bit odd

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I once was called to the phone in reception at work (GP practice)...it was a patient of mine who knew I had horses and wondered if I could recommend an EDT.

We had a conversation about sedation, gags, drilling off hooks etc......all perfectly normal horsey stuff...when I put the phone down reception staff and a waiting room full of patients were staring at me agog

 

[diane.crooks]

Hi I poo pick twice a week I have 2 Cobs a Shetland pony and a Dartmoor pony.

I use gloved hands ( cant get on with shovels, forks etc) so armed with a Poo bucket and an open back gator to load the poo onto i spend a couple of hours clearing the fields and moving it to the muck heap up the road. At weekends I have help and between us we keep the fields poo free.

I sell my poo to whoever wants it once its rotted down and this year I am going to try and make fire bricks out of our poo. I am told if you let the poo rot down you can buy a brick maker you put the poo in squeeze the mixture in till it forms into a brick place them in the air to dry off give them a couple of weeks to dry and then you can burn them in log fires etc and there is no smell..... watch this space

Hi there!

I poo pick everyday, and usually for 2 horses, it only takes about 15 minutes, but they are only out from about 8am to 330pm, are yours out 24/7?

I use a wheel barrow and shavings fork - if you have some long grass its much easier than a spade....

Mel

Ps take a dog with you, mine loves helping!

 

[tedster]

We poo pick twice a day everyday come rain or shine although the snow did stop us
WE have 10 on 24 acres sectioned and use a wheel barrow, poop scoop thing or rubber gloves ....... ohhh the dog helps too

Ours are out 24/7 and I dont like seeing the turds lying there crusting over lol