Poo picking - have I lost the plot?!

[Trewsers]

WEll, am feeling very agitated as its way past my time for going home to poo pick:p:o:eek: I have got bogged down at work and things have got put back somewhat. oh dear. Am I a bad owner? They are in a two acre field which has not been picked since 1pm yesterday. TEll me they won't mind!:o:o Feeling bad.......(I hate it when it gets full of poo - takes me forever to get done as well!!!!!)

[Maggiemooo]

You Poo Pick every day?? :eek::eek: makes me feel like a really really bad mum, tends to be done at weekends only, but they are in 4 1/2 acres and have area's that they poo in away from their main eating area...feeling guilty now, should you poo pick every day?:confused:

[fairlady]

I TRY to poopick everyday. Except when I am on late shifts.

Unfortunately I have been on 3 lates, so there is an awful lot of poo to pic:eek::p

[Trewsers]

Oh, didn't want to make anybody feel bad!! lol, its just another form of OCD with me I think!!! They do tend to have what I call "poo corner" so its not too bad and there is plenty of grass in there - still, I'm itching to get it done.........!

[Carrie+Morgan]

You Poo Pick every day?? :eek::eek: makes me feel like a really really bad mum, tends to be done at weekends only, but they are in 4 1/2 acres and have area's that they poo in away from their main eating area...feeling guilty now, should you poo pick every day?:confused:

I am with you Maggiemooo my field gets done once a week :D but the horses are in overnight but no you should definately not feel guilty about leaving your poo picking for a day!!

[dragzb]

I'm another OCD poo picker and it has to be done every night, I give myself Friday night off though. Mind you this isn't because I can't stand the sight of it, actually it is, but to be honest its because my field is on a slope and if I leave it all to the weekend it breaks your back wheeling 5 barrows of poop uphill. :D

[Trewsers]

I'm going to have to do it tonight - as soon as I get home!!!! Yes, our field is on a slope too dragzb and I know what you mean about it being back breaking! Tho I use a large tub trug, but if it gets out of hand, it can be dreadful and I have to keep clambering up and down the hill...............

[Maggiemooo]

Anyone in the essex area who has OCD about poo picking - please contact me and I can help cure you!! :):)

[Native Lover]

we poo pick on a daily basis, its just a chore we choose to do daily:eek:

[rubysmum]

i will soon have no light to poo pick in the evenings - told my teenage daughter that i was considering poo picking with a head torch - her new nickname for me is - the poo mole:D

[Kimmy C]

I have OCD too Maggiemoo, my fields are poo-picked every day. We have a rota a.m. and p.m.

[pauline w]

Definately OCD. I do ours (5 donkeys and 8 ponies) in different paddocks with access to stables and shelters TWICE a day. Once the clocks go back I can only do most of them once. I'm lucky enough to be able to spend all daylight hours with them and go to work when it's dark. (I clean a school and have the keys) I do have help a couple of times a week while the weather is nice, not many of my friends can cope with the cold, wet winters. only one has survived so far and he's off sick this week: :(

[Sharman&Apollo]

Crazy! All of you :D

I only poo pick the top flat section of the field - the rest is too steep to bother with. And only about once a week :p

My grandad finds it quite amusing that I pick up all the poo, then he goes and spreads the muckheap all over the fields :rolleyes:

don't have a worm problem through some miracle :o:D

[Joyscarer]

I know how you feel about not poo picking.

I've been very strict with myself about poo picking daily up until this year when I've had health isses and then time issues and have been doing when I can which is often every other day. It really grated me not to do it daily. Now I have the issue of it being too dark in the mornings so I've been doing what I can and then getting the rest when I have a daylight visit.

When the ponies move over onto their big winter paddock with knee high standing hay/grass I'll be experiementing with not poo picking unless it is in the high traffic areas. I got so upset last year by thinking I'd done the whole field only to find I hadn't and it took so long because of the very long grass that I'm going to try and be less stressy and more relaxed about it all. It's not as if I have a lot of pressure on the land and am short of grass. This year I won't have to feed hay because I have such an abundance.

In spring it will all get harrowed in although by then as the grass will be shorter I suspent that I'll then be poo picking again anyway. It's just impossible on such long grass without taking over an hour a day.

I too don't have a problem with worms. My 2 have a field to themselves with no other horses joining or leaving their little herd. It's me I have the problem with!

[Trewsers]

Glad I am not alone! Feeling soooo much better this morning, I got the whole field done this morning before work! ha. Me, obsessive?!!!nah.........

[lynnemh]

i do feel much better in myself when i have done the pooh patrol, but i ussaully go through a period every year when i dont for several weeks, even a month, and then get so ashamed that i have a few mad days of picking up mammoth amounts, and get back on the straight and narrow. ( last year it was after the snow) but like joyscarer, it is only my 2, and they dont eat in the pooh areas anyway. i quite like the longer grass in the pooh areas, as it hides the evidence of my laziness, then in summer i mow it off with a small mower, and then pick up the droppings, or i wait to a frosty day, when i find them much easier to pick up as they weigh lighter, and come up as an entirety, rather than in crumbly sections

[Trewsers]

Yes, crumbly sections! There is nowt more annoying!!! The field ours are in at the moment has quite long grass and I find it quite difficult to get the piles up, and annoyingly it never seems to come up all in one go........!

[EnduranceAli]

I have always been really fussy about poo picking - but now with 4 ponies (out during the day) and various health issues, there are some days when I miss my trundle around the field with the barrow :eek: I hate missing a day (or more), as then it is a much harder job to catch up. I haven't been out there for 2 days, so later on I will have to struggle with a heavy wheelbarrow up our very steep field. It is very satisfying to see a clean field and I definitely save money on buying wormers.

Ali xx

ps Probably reducing my herd to one pony and putting her in livery soon, so then I won't have to poo pick at all :)

[Trewsers]

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ps Probably reducing my herd to one pony and putting her in livery soon, so then I won't have to poo pick at all :)

You'll miss the poo picking then?!:D Bet it will be strange going from 4 to 1?

[diplomaticandtactful]

i used to poo pick weekly when they were in a small field, as otherwise it got horrible. rosie's tiny starvation paddock i did daily and the rest of the field (3 acres) either a bit every day or once a week.

we now have a 10 acre field, and i just don't do it at all. I clear the stuff from field shelters but leave the rest. the field is deep in grass, boggy, there is no way i would get a wheel barrow round it.

i don't worm either - we do worm counts instead and for the last year, they have been zero!