We only poo pick the small farrowing pens, for the same reasons as BEB, smell, close to other houses, and to stop them looking like guano factories - 20 piglets/weaners (lots going to new homes this weekend) produce a mind boggling volume of s**t every day, revolting if I leave it for 2 days. I use any implement that can scoop it into the long handled horse bucket pan as fast as possible - rubber glove, spoons, trowels, long handled hoe, but never the object the horse rake, which is useless in grass or on rough/dug up ground. Tamsaddle