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Weezy

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How often do you do it? I personally do it every day, every other day at a push, was wondering about everyone else
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And your reasons for your routine.
 
I don't. We have too many other things that need doing. Never see tons of it, the fields are rested over the winter and rotated in the summer.
Plus takes several hours to do it!
 
I dont
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They have just come off winter grazing and have chain harrowed today. Will roll tomorrow and fertilize just before next rain.
 
I don't in the winter as they graze in 12 acres of cow pasture after the cows come in for winter. Needle in a haystack to find it!

Summer paddocks are split into four smallish areas (largest only just over 2 acres) which are strip grazed initially until eaten down. I poo pick in there at least once a day, sometimes twice a day. Must admit, I don't barrow it out though. I flick it over the fence into the cows paddocks where the cows break the worm cycle and into fields that are regularly topped and harrowed.
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in the big fields (around 10 acres) i don't, just harrow them now and again. In the small paddocks (1-2 acres) i do every other day.

All of these fields/paddocks have sheep in them aswell.
 
QR: I dont - neither does the yard. In an ideal world it would be poo-picked, but it isnt going to happen unless I move yards. Realistically it would be expecting the impossible, it is a 22 acre field, up and down dale, with a stream, wooded area & 15 horses grazing it!
 
We haven't an awful lot of acreage but what I do have is kept sweet by poo-picking (fanatically) and allowing sheep on - plus a rest over the winter. I have an Irish horse who must have been riddled with everything under the sun when he came over here and he has had a clear count every year since 2002. All four of mine have 'zero' counts, in fact, but I do not allow them to graze anywhere when we are out. I think it's the way to go, with wormer resistance on the increase but I could be wrong.
 
Am in envy with all the huge paddocks people have! I have a teeny tiny turn out area, hence why I have to poo pick it. I cannot think that I wouldn't poo pick daily unless I had a field of 2+acres.
 
ah, well if strip grazing would poo pick obiously but we have good fields.
Only our winter paddock could be poo picked(size of a sandschool), but as it is hayed in(in bales) so not eating off the ground don't see the point. It has all been trampled in nicely anyway and we have flat, hard earth (no grass) at the moment
 
When I had a horse it was everyday, or every other day at a stretch. Simply because it kept it down to a half barrow and only took 10 minutes with 1 in the field. Since you have the same field you know the size L
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Every day! 4.5 acres & 2 horses. They are out all the time so it would build up too much we didn't. Every day limits it to one wheelbarrow load & 15 minutes max - just about bearable!
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We're on 26 acres, split up into paddock with 2/3 horses in each paddock. Ours is split in half to manage the grazing & horses are rotated. We poo pick daily, each owner, so we eack pick twice a week. All horses are on zero counts so ourf regime seems to work
 
I don't poo pick, S is now out for the summer with 4 other horses and two tiny ponies in a 30 acre field. In a few weeks they will all move to another field that hasn't been used since last October.
 
Yea but at least yours dont get massively obese & go lame from playing rodeo pony in the 20 acre field
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Id love a paddock to turn my horse out in - in the summer; instead he has to have limited t/o to prevent him from resembling a baby hippo!
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Lottie is in a 3acre paddock and i do it between once and four times a week, it gets difficult in the winter as i ride mouse after work then drive to lottie so by the time i get there it's around 7-8pm so i could only do it at weekends but now its light by the time i get to her i can do a bit in the evenings but i make sure it's cleared completely once a week, were mouse is we have a sweeper so i don't have to poo-pick !!
 
I pick out Lolas maternity paddock every day mainly because it's only half an acre, but also because I can see it from my kitchen window and it's at the front of the house so everybody passing can see it too.

The other field (4 acres) will get harrowed.
 
We have three fileds which take it in turn to be rested which are around 7acres each(guess), nobody poo picks on my yard.
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Our paddock is about 4 acres, it is split into three. One is a night paddock with access to stables etc which they go in at night lol. The other two we alternate every two weeks for during the day so they have a rest. Also gives us time to weed killer/maintence on each section on its rest stage
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We poo pick every day. and have two ponies
 
As of yesterday I will be picking every week day - they went out into their summer field (about 5 acres) yesterday - we are expected to pick this field - as I have one horse, and there are 3 others I take out 1 barrow load every weekday morning and think this should equate to my girls share - I know that if I did it all the other two would happily let me!!
 
Well fields split up and my section only gets about a wheelborrow a week. I would do mine daily but it's bit far to walk with wheelborrow and tools to pick up that one poo....
 
I don't just, with 3 of them on a 13 acre field it would take forever, plus the other 2 horses owners wouldn't poo pick and I'm not doing all three! Once I've built his paddock for the summer that will be poo-picked, it'll probably be 1 or acres.
 
I have a small paddock at home (approx 1 acre) with 4 ponies on which I poo pick daily. I have 2 horses on approx 7 acres up the road which I don't poo pick at all..
 
I've ticked every other day but try and do it daily. Its a necessity because have less than 2 acres and 3 horses and a donkey. Divided into 3 paddocks so each part gets rested at some point. Also arrowed and fertilised. If I had 4 acres or more probably wouldn't bother would just harrow. Have to say that there are no patches of soured grass on my land.
 
If I had my own private paddock I'd do it every day but a the moment mine go out in a paddck in the evnings which is used by the other horses on my yard during the day. Much as I'd like to go in and clean the field (it's had 5 horses grazing on it for the last week (plus one of mine for 2 hours in the evening) and it's not that big so it needs a good clean but I'm not cleaning up after other peoples horses.
 
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