Poo picking

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The Orchard I don't pick, as the sheep will go on it for a short while now my two have eaten the grass off.

The Water paddock has been rested all winter and my friend cleared it after her house had been on in for a couple of weeks last October.

Winter I don't tend to poo pick, unless it is in an unsightly area. (like right in front of the land owners house! lol)

I have started to clear the one paddock of last winters poo and once the horses go back on there it will be done every day or every other day all over the summer. (especially now I have my Paddock Cleaner)

I'm going up to prepare the Water Paddock today, as my 2 are coming off the Orchard and going on there whilst I am down at yours. (so that won't get picked until I get back)

You will be able to get Ellie to poo pick for you whilst we are down. You know she loves doing it!
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G has his own little paddock, and he shares it with a ewe and a lamb. We poo pick probably five times a week, and one of the neighbours who lives next to the paddock asks that I tip it over her garden fence for her garden. So no lugging it about etc. I just poo pick, stick it all in a huge trug and tip it over at the end of the week. His paddock is probably about 1 1/2 acres - 2 acres.
 
I don't because we have sheep and the fields are chain harrowed when possible..... Also mine are out with others and I don't know who's poo is mine and whose poo is'nt. lol lol
I do poo pick if they graze the schooling area which is grass.
 
In the winter we leave it all week and then all 3 of us at some point over the weekend will get a wheelbarrow (at least) out so it is clear. In the summer we have two days each during the week in which to do it.
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I rest my paddocks for 6 months at a time. The horse do have an electric fenced path through them, as they are in the far paddock and field shelter is in the near one. So, I poo pick the path but not the fields.
Question: Our chickens go through the poos and scatter them, do you think that would help to get rid of the worms? It is really hard to pick them up when they have been flattened!
 
I poo pick twice a day. My girls share my neighbours fields and they are extremely fastidious about poo picking. I swear, they have some sort of sixth sense about horses pooing and are sometimes down picking it up before the horse has even finished.
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If it was left to me then I'd probably do it once a day as the fields aren't massive so the clearer the better.
 
i would like to say i do it every day but i couldnt lie to you all!! we are so often away from the yard it gets done as often as i can. if we are at a three day i have to have a blitz on returning on the pony fields, though i have now found a part time freelance girl who doesnt mind doing a bit when we are not here.
 
At my last yard we had to do it every day as the paddocks were really too small for the amount of horses on them. It was the bane of my life, tbh I'd rather muck out!!
At my new yard the fields are a lot bigger and we only have 3 horses on there so the YO drives up and down with his atv with this big brushing machine on the back every so often when we rotate paddocks.

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i pick once a day in summer - 2 on a one acre paddock- i don't like to let it build up and on a small paddock it would look awful and the grass would go sour, in winter when they are in at night i poo pick once or twice a week, as can't do it in the dark!! if i had bigger fields i wouldn't worry so much, but the last yard i was at had 8 horses on 3 acres and never poo picked it waqs literally a shitehole!! yuk.
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