Question to all of you who do your own poo picking

When I first moved to yard shared a paddock with a person who never poo picked. Farmer would harrow every 10 days but I poo picked because it wasn't a huge paddock and it seemed gross.
Now share a paddock with two others and all 3 of us do it regularly luckily boys have fixed areas although previousk incumbent had two horses in there and never poo picked and for that matter never checked hers. It is lovely to see a clean paddock and doing it regularly seems best.
 
I poo pick everyday in the smaller summer fields, except when they move to the winter field as its massive and I would spend all day looking for it all. When they move back into summer fields (now dont laugh) we go in the winter and kick it about to spread it around so there arent poached areas, this seems to work for me.
 
Twice a day, every day for my two boys. They poo for England, its three barrows a day! Would hate to let that build up. Can you split the field and just pick your half? That's what I would do. Wouldn't be happy otherwise.
 
3 x a day when they are in the all weather turnout in winter, but only once a week in the summer. We take the 4x4 in with the trailer and it takes around 3 hours to do all the paddocks. I hate it!
 
Every day for eight, in three separate fields. I take my 4x4 in, with a small trailer and use the scoop part of a poopicker and one of these...........

http://www.worldofwolf.co.uk/Products/Small-Leaf-Rake--LDM.html

with a short handle attached..........

http://www.worldofwolf.co.uk/Products/16cm-Small-Handle--ZM02.html

They are available at most garden centres, and it only takes me about an hour. The rake is dead easy, even in long grass.

If, for whatever reason, I miss a day, it's like an itch that i desperately need to scratch :)
 
twice early morning and late evening best times of the day to be doing a '*****ty job :D

Our last loan they were pretty good at poo picking so couldn't complain but I do pass a paddock on the way home and its revolting
 
Mine is usually in a field of 6-8 others. I poo pick once a week and so does everyone ese - but all on diff days so some get done most days of the week and doesn't build up too much. I usually take out approx 4 barrows at a time.

She's on rehab post surgery at the moment in an individual paddock so I was doing it daily until I dislocated my knee, and now people are doing it for me as often as they can until I am off the crutches.
 
Every day usually but currently have a backlog as i went on holiday for a week.

Anyway how come everyone doesn't seem to get as much as me?

I take out 1-2 wheelbarrows A DAY. when i counted last, I counted 26 piles.

I only have a 13.3hh and a 12.2hh on limited/not much feed and are not particularly good doers! (bit tubby at the moment though but both struggle in winter)
 
I poo-pick twice daily (2 horses and 2 shetties). I find using a Leaf Rake the easiest tool with the poop scooper bucket. Even in the longest grass, its easy to get up all the droppings, especially if you follow the lie of the grass!! ie rake the muck away from root ends.....see, i have got really technical in the art of the least effort required to poopick!!
 
WelshD said:
I poo pick every other day

Can I ask how you all do it? Is rubber gloves the easiest? Just want to be sure I'm not missing an easy obvious way!
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For me the easiest way is a pair of rubber gloves and a good quality dustpan - reasonable size - dustpan beside dropping , push on with glove and into the barrow.

For the kids at the riding school I had the oval shaped laundy baskets with a rope threaded around the top leaving a loop to pull it with and they'd drag it to each dropping, pick up and when full enough drag it to a barrow where an older kid would pick up and put in the barrow. Speeded up the poo picking.

Poo picking certainly extends the grazing considerably. I had 32 horses and ponies on around 15 grazeable acres. There were no uneaten clumps anywhere and we were also lucky to have an irrigator so had grass year round even in drought times.

Where I graze now the paddocks are harrowed, I feel I deserve to have retired from poo picking. Over the past few months though we've had so much heavy rain there is rarely a poo left each week.
 
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Every day usually but currently have a backlog as i went on holiday for a week.

Anyway how come everyone doesn't seem to get as much as me?

I take out 1-2 wheelbarrows A DAY. when i counted last, I counted 26 piles.

I only have a 13.3hh and a 12.2hh on limited/not much feed and are not particularly good doers! (bit tubby at the moment though but both struggle in winter)
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Mine doesn't live out though as good doer (stabled by day usually). She does 10-12 piles a day between stable and field and my barrow is quite big. So 26 piles for 2 is about right assuming they live out?
 
I have two horses living out in their own space but separated by electric fencing. I poo pick twice day and quite enjoy it in my own sad little way.

It definitely cuts down on the flies, keeps the pasture looking neat and also enables me in an equally sad fashion to count the number of poos they are doing. One is a skinny and the other is a would-be fatty, so being able to tell whose poos are which is definitely a bonus.
 
P.S. The Skinny does about 12 in 24 hours (is supplemented by hay to keep his weight up) and the Fattus does about 7, but they are pleasantly fat and juicy, so noone feel sorry for him please.
 
Every day! I moved them into resting paddock that ha lots of grass = lots of poos! I used to do between 1/2-1 barrow a day but with all the grass I was doing 2.5-4 a day!!!! They have eaten the grass down now and back to a manageable one barrow a day. If I had left it I would have cried cause there was so much!!!
 
We've 2 ponies on just over an acre, out 24/7. The field has a line of electric fence down the middle almost splitting it in two, the top side is flat and where their field shelter and the tree is and the bottom side slopes downhill. The poonies each have a poo pile, one each side of the field shelter and one each side of the tree they shelter under the other end of the field. They also have a poo pile each on the slop in the bottom half of the field the other side of the electric fence. One of them I've trianed to 'poop on the scoop' on command while I've been poo picking (he used to run when I approached him as he was settling for a poo! All in all they're very neat and tidy, but I like to pick the poo more or less daily as we're overlooked by a public park, but only from one spot in the park which means you can only see a little bit of the field and all of the NF's poo pile at the field shelter end! ALso if ;eft then the magpies get in and flick it about meaning it's a lot harder to pick up

To pick I use a Fynalite shavings fork to scoop up the bulk big lumps, then a long handled scoop and fork like this http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com/...llectors/manure-collector-and-fork-black.html to collect the smaller bits I missed. Get a barrow a day. However when the ground is dryish they spend the day in the woods and I don't poo pick that at all, as the ground is a lot easier for them to hide their poo in! They're wormcounted very ;low/negligible anyway
 
We poo pick twice a day as ours live out 24/7 on 4 acres.

I go up before work and again after work. In the winter I might have to poo pick just in the evening as it will be dark in the mornings and I won't have time to wander round with a torch!!
 
Once a day, they live out 24/7 all year round. We DO have a terra-vac that tends to come out after the snow has thawed, to help the job along a bit to get back on top of it. We got the terra-vac but found it's just as easy grabbing the barrow and scoop, than fannying about attaching the machine. If we lived on site and had a place to store, then the machine would permanently be on one of the tractors and wheeled out each day....:D
 
Wow! Would love to know where all of you that poo pick twice a day find the time!!! ;)

Mine is in at night and out through the day on an individual paddock which is done 2-3 times a week. If I did it every day I wouldn't have time to ride or do the other stuff like grooming and tack cleaning etc. I never get home to feed the husband before 8pm... If I poo picked each day I think he'd go into decline!!!
 
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