For our farm I do my best to clean up the shelters and paddocks everyday. This helps the animals have a cleaner area to be in and reduces problems with parasites. However, if we have a snowstorm or if things are frozen to the ground, I don't clean that up. There was a time I hacked away regardless of the weather but I found I did more damage by doing that. Then when it did thaw the parts I hacked out where lower and filled with water and as you can imagine it created a muddy bad mess.
So what I do now it clean up what I can everyday, and on those days there is a bit of a thaw, I can clean up all that has unthawed.
I did run into a problem this year in that the paddocks cleaned of snow, but my trail to the compost pile was under snow:
As miserable as it is to pull a sled on dirt, it is just as miserable to get the wheel barrow stuck in snow. One day I had to abandon this chore, stuck in the snow with no where to go.
My tools:
Ready for the trek to the compost pile:
Compost pile (I know it looks small but that is because about 80% of it is under snow, there's tons of various levels of compost here, much of it rich black dirt):
On a typical day I can fit everything in one trip to the compost pile. On a thawing spring day I have done anywhere from 3 to 8 trips to the compost pile! Now that is a work out!!
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