LankyDoodle
Well-Known Member
How many poos per 24 hours does your horse do?
I was poo picking my field tonight where my horses spend 24 hours a day in the summer (apart from ridden time, obviously, but they hadn't been ridden in the previous 24 hours). I was bored and counted the poos I picked up. In approximately 24 hours, a 15hh welsh cob and a 17.3hh warmblood, produced 20 very large poos, which on average took 2 scoops to pick up.
I got bored again so I worked out how often they must be pooing, assuming each did equal poos, and it worked out that each horse must poo approximately once every 2.5 hours, but of course this wouldn't be right as they'd not be eating for some of the time so would poo more at set times of the day.
So then I worked out how many poos they would produce in one year, if they continued at this rate, and it worked out at 7280 poos between the two horses. I then allowed a little for seasonal variation owing to the fact that in winter each horse gets at least 2 hard feeds plus ad lib hay, whereas in summer they are on a handful of lite chaff with their vits and mins and are out 24/7 and also ridden more so likely to produce less poos in the field/stable.
So the conclusion I drew was that my horses, between them, produce approximately 9000 poos per year, which means I have to use my scoop approximately 18000 times in a year.
This post is quite irrelevant and shows the musings of a troubled mind on a Thursday evening poo-pick mission; but I wondered how many poos your horses produce?
I was poo picking my field tonight where my horses spend 24 hours a day in the summer (apart from ridden time, obviously, but they hadn't been ridden in the previous 24 hours). I was bored and counted the poos I picked up. In approximately 24 hours, a 15hh welsh cob and a 17.3hh warmblood, produced 20 very large poos, which on average took 2 scoops to pick up.
I got bored again so I worked out how often they must be pooing, assuming each did equal poos, and it worked out that each horse must poo approximately once every 2.5 hours, but of course this wouldn't be right as they'd not be eating for some of the time so would poo more at set times of the day.
So then I worked out how many poos they would produce in one year, if they continued at this rate, and it worked out at 7280 poos between the two horses. I then allowed a little for seasonal variation owing to the fact that in winter each horse gets at least 2 hard feeds plus ad lib hay, whereas in summer they are on a handful of lite chaff with their vits and mins and are out 24/7 and also ridden more so likely to produce less poos in the field/stable.
So the conclusion I drew was that my horses, between them, produce approximately 9000 poos per year, which means I have to use my scoop approximately 18000 times in a year.
This post is quite irrelevant and shows the musings of a troubled mind on a Thursday evening poo-pick mission; but I wondered how many poos your horses produce?
