Countryfile - Rare Breeds

I had to rewind the clip of him in the field. Isn't he gorgeous!!! Makes me want to breed them they're so rare!!! Obviously not in the position to breed anything but if I had the space a couple of mares!!!

We've got Longhorns by us, they are a pretty common sight aren't they!!!
 
My OH wants one, he said he doesn't know why everyone doesn't have one.

They said that it's harder to breed from the more laid back stallions. Sad, if it means that the laid back ones aren't used much. I'd rather have a laid back sire for any horse I was breeding; perhaps the offspring would be more suitable for most of the buying public if the laid back lads got a chance.
 
They are lovely, but were bred to be driving ponies, so they don't have much of a job to do now.

My OH's great grandfather used to have a trotting pony, that he used to go round his farms. He had land in another county, so he hitched up the pony trotted to the station, loaded it on the train, unloaded at the other end and spent the day going round his land, and loaded it back on the train for the return journey. It was apparently a very fast trotter and could do the journey from the farm to the station in not much more time than it takes now in a car.
 
I could love Countryfile if stuffed full of this kind of informative report ... not just horse ones, but things I (as a countrywoman born and bred) didn't already know about.

It's just a shame that in general they fill it with Blue Peter-esk, numpty fluffiness that wouldn't tax the brain of a 6 year old who still thought that Old Macdonald's farm was where they make the Big Mac.

Like the bit I caught last week: Clare Balding looking at the crab industry here and the fact that we export most of our catch, as UK folk are squeamish about killing them ... they then moved swiftly on to the 'fun' section, where Clare was charged with dismembering a cooked crab in a local competition... thus totally skipping over the Elephant in the BBC CF Production Office ie what happened to MAKE it dead: the fact that it had been put in a pot of boiling water or had a knife through its brain. Both methods should - in the interests of reality - have been shown or explained, but I guess the focus-groups would have disagreed with me.

Hence why I usually end up hurling exasperated expletives at the screen and why, for my blood pressure's sake, I should watch re-runs of The Big Bang Theory instead.

*Rant over. And breeeaaaaatthhe.*
 
Mrs B said:
I could love Countryfile if stuffed full of this kind of informative report ... not just horse ones, but things I (as a countrywoman born and bred) didn't already know about.

It's just a shame that in general they fill it with Blue Peter-esk, numpty fluffiness that wouldn't tax the brain of a 6 year old who still thought that Old Macdonald's farm was where they make the Big Mac.

Like the bit I caught last week: Clare Balding looking at the crab industry here and the fact that we export most of our catch, as UK folk are squeamish about killing them ... they then moved swiftly on to the 'fun' section, where Clare was charged with dismembering a cooked crab in a local competition... thus totally skipping over the Elephant in the BBC CF Production Office ie what happened to MAKE it dead: the fact that it had been put in a pot of boiling water or had a knife through its brain. Both methods should - in the interests of reality - have been shown or explained, but I guess the focus-groups would have disagreed with me.

Hence why I usually end up hurling exasperated expletives at the screen and why, for my blood pressure's sake, I should watch re-runs of The Big Bang Theory instead.

*Rant over. And breeeaaaaatthhe.*
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I hear you ;)
 
Another fan of hackneys. There was a breeder in Aberdeenshire I went to see, "Cluny Crichton", many decades ago now. He was one of those old characters totally involved with his horses.
 
Interesting to see the methods of the AI centre.
Yes our favourite edition of CF for ages, we hope Adam could have his own series.
 
Mrs B said:
I could love Countryfile if stuffed full of this kind of informative report ... not just horse ones, but things I (as a countrywoman born and bred) didn't already know about.
It's just a shame that in general they fill it with Blue Peter-esk, numpty fluffiness that wouldn't tax the brain of a 6 year old who still thought that Old Macdonald's farm was where they make the Big Mac.
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Agree. I love the factual informative bits, but wish the rest of it wasn't quite so magaziney and watered-down. I guess it's where they're trying to make it interesting to a big percentage of the population rather than just country/farming viewers.
 
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