Does anyone else muck out their horse fields?

[Momo]

I clean the paddocks around the barn religiously every day, sometimes twice a day. But the field (about 2 acres), nope. Doing the paddocks is easy in the spring/summer/fall and takes about 10 min (for 2 horses) but in the winter it can take 30 or 45 minutes to (a) find it, and (b) chip it out with a shovel.

 

[chickbea]

In the winter I clean the paddock around the entries to the stalls and the outdoor hay rack. Otherwise, by spring the poo can be many feet high!

 

[Appytaz]

I have 1 horse and 1 mini donkey on 1 acre of pasture and I drag it with an old box springs. It spreads in out and in the summer the rain waters it in. The chickens also do a good job of spreading it.

 

[pips&peeps]

My horses don't poop in their stalls unless they are locked in, so I only clean when necessary there.

We drag our fields when the piles get high.

 

[jBlaze]

We clean out the paddocks when we can but definetly not the fields. We take the pile and apply it to the fileds and use the smoother thinggy on the tractor to smooth it all out, it looks messy for a bit, but man, the fields do way better with that "free" fertilizer. Better than buying hay ahd fertilizer and wasting the nutrients! What do you doo with what you are taking out of the field?? Hope you don't pay someone to haul it away!

 

[Bec]

We have a compost pile and we spread some out behind the barn.

 

[greyfields]

I know at those picturesque horse farms, they have the perfectly green pastures becuase they go around and pick up the manure off the ground. I use a drag harrow in the fall and spring on mine, it's 12' wide and 12' long. It helps break up the manure, exposing it to UV radiation and killing bad things I don't want other beats to ingest.

 

[chickbea]

pips&peeps :

My horses don't poop in their stalls unless they are locked in, so I only clean when necessary there.

Boy, are you lucky! One of the geldings I take care of will literally come up from the lower pasture so that he can pee in his stall! If he knows there is freshly laid bedding in there, even better! Bad boy! ​

 

[toletiquesbysam]

I'm a new horse owner so I'm thinking I'll put it in our "garden" area to compost. Do any of you do that and if so do I just put each "mucking" in a different area of the garden and then rota till it come planting season or should I put it all in one area to compost it and then spread that?

 

[Wildsky]

We clean up in the barn (20x20) daily, shared by the horse and goat. But outside, nope, we used to clean up outside every day, we increased the size of their pasture so its not an issue any more - and the chickens are more than pleased to spread everything around.