I know this topic has been covered quite a bit but I really feel I need some input. I have recently moved my horse to a new yard and the owner is OCD about poo picking. The horses are in individual paddocks of about an acre and I don't have any issue with the poo picking per se. There is a good worming program in place as well. For the winter the horses have been moved into rough paddocks. I have a 22 mile commute to work (I work full time), it's 26 miles from my job to the yard, then another 8 to get home (there is a shortage of good local yards). Due to the nature of my job I often have to work late. Regardless of this, in the winter it would be always be dark by the time I arrived at the yard. The yard is in the middle of nowhere and no-one lives on site. By the time I arrive most evenings everyone else is gone. I am not keen on going out into a dark field on my own at night with no-one else about. I live on my own so if anything happened no-one would know until the yard owner came to check the horses (usually between 9 and 9.30pm). This week my horse had colic (first time ever in 22 years???) and I had to take some time off work. Thus I needed to catch up on some things so 2 nights in a row I got to the yard after 8pm (the YO brings my horse in earlier). I had cleared the field on the Monday, and they had been kept in for one day, my horse doesn't poo much in the field anyway. I got to the yard at 7.40pm on the Thursday night to a very abrupt note ordering me to poo pick. I found it rather offensive. I did do the poo picking and there was an 'enormous' total of four poos! Not really enough to get all shirty about. Like I said I have no issue with the poo picking, always clear the paddock at weekends and do it in the week if I am there early enough. But after a 56 mile round trip and long day (not even taking account of the risk) I am not inclined to walk around a dark paddock for the sum total of 2-3 poos each night, especially when most nights I don't get home until 9ish and still have to eat dinner and study for a degree. Surely weekends in the winter and daily in the summer is more reasonable? Or even twice a week in the winter? I think this this is more sensible and allows for people who work full time. Sorry to go on. Comments?
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