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How much hay is she fed? The more forage she gets, the more she will poop (and that’s a good thing.)
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I also find a difference between individual horses on similar amounts of forage. What’s really important is to know what your horses normal is, which lets you notice if impaction colic might be brewing
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What the heck is the point of posting a question if you’re going to delete it? So dumb.
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It wasn’t even “bad”. Just a question from a place of worry, which we all do for our horses!
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From the look of the answers it reads like it was a good question too.
I will second this.
Along those lines, it is good to learn what a normal pile for that horse looks like. I have one that makes huge piles less often than the one who makes more frequent smaller piles. The one who makes the smaller piles also has much smaller manure balls.
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Yeah agreed. It looked like a normal question. There was another recent one that was deleted. Normal question, nice normal responses. I don’t get it.
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I have a Manure For Dummies herd 
Horse
Pony
Mini
EZ-PZ to know who made what 
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@shadesofbay3 this is a discussion board - and people search these topics long after the original thread dies, so it’s best practice to leave things up for the future. Deleting posts and topics is frowned upon unless there’s a really good reason (ie personal information that couldn’t be edited out, inappropriate topic/post, or catching a mispost before discussion takes off).
Please leave your threads up in the future, or don’t post if you’re just going to delete them.
ETA you’ve been here for over 10 years. You should know this.
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If the question was about how many times a horse poops each day I can give you numbers. I asked my vet this years ago and she gave me a range of 7 to 15 depending on diet,
So being a bit compulsive and while picking manure every day, I count piles. Mine are at the 15 times per day end of the poop production range on a 24/7 grass diet with twice daily feedings of a ration balancer.
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& Now I need to hug my horses & dispense Xtra cookies.
They have free access to stalls 24/7.
Even in the godawful coldsnap we had, w/nighttime temps as low as -30F 
, I never had to pick more than 4 or 5 piles from any stall 
And that included when all 3 shared a single 12X12.
So they were leaving the other “up to 15” outside?
I’ve seen the horse stop to drop a pile well outside his stall - usually when he sees me coming to feed.
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Mine have free stall access too, but I don’t put down any bedding, and they rarely poop in a stall. All my numbers are from hand picking (well, manure fork picking) the pasture every day.
And yes I can tell who each pile belongs to. Definitely different configurations from horse to horse, unless there has been a hard rain overnight.
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I proclaim you PhD, Dr of Poopology Horse 
The only way my pastures get picked is when neighbor w/tractor mows or spreads on them.
I do clear the drylot, but once the ground freezes, along with the piles, all bets are off 
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You are not alone @LCDR, I pick my paddocks and sacrifice area every day too.
In the winter I drag around one of those ice fishing sleds to find as many piles as I can and get them out of there.
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My vet recommended the daily practice of picking up pasture manure for optimal parasite control. I learned later that she only has her own paddocks picked weekly. But my labor is free, and she has to hire someone.
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I count poops, too. I have one that likes to colic, so I am hyper aware of number, size and consistency of the piles. I think a good horseperson does this as a matter of habit. No different than checking legs, picking up feet, knowing the subtle differences in our horses day to day. My retired gelding is a 5 a day pooper, large and slightly loose. Boarder gelding is 9-12 a day, small, firm. Horse people are poop obsessed. It’s a thing!
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I think I remember something like 28lbs of manure a day is the average, as well - depending on size/diet, of course. It adds up.
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Well now you’ve got obsessive me thinking about how to weigh the manure every day in addition to counting the piles. I do own both a 600 pound digital hay scale and a 2,000 pound digital horse scale. 
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