I Either Need To Relax, Or Buy A Smaller Fork!

Yesterday morning around 7:30 I had finished morning chores

and decided it was time to clean the front pasture.

With muck buckets and my favorite manure fork I drove the gator into the pasture...

my three trusty sidekicks with me.

I had already cleaned the upper pasture where the horses had spent their night.

I do that every morning after they come back to the barn for breakfast.

I am a fanatic about clean pastures.

Besides the fact that I hate to see manure lying around,

it is healthier (from a parasite standpoint) 

for all of the animals to not be grazing where they drop manure.

"I might be just a little crazy," I thought, as I cleaned up sheep and pig manure in the front pasture.

Does anyone else do this?

Now, granted, their manure is much smaller than the horses.

However, with a diet rich in grass, they leave piles much the same size as a large dog.

My rationale is this...

if it fits on a manure fork, I'm cleaning it up.

I might be the only human on the face of the earth doing this, however.

Please...tell me.... do you clean up your sheep or pig manure?

Or am I the only crazy one here?

Ok...don't tell anyone....but I have been known to also clean up piles of sheep-berries.

(I need to invent a smaller fork!)

Oooohhhh....I just had a thought....a pasture vacuum!  Hmmmmmm.