Why do people want to own cobs?

I stayed at a camp-site that had horses in the field with all the tents over the summer. They were particularly attractive horses, apart from the cob.

The cob insisted on looking for food in all our tents and cars. Not finding any she attempted to eat the smouldering remains of our barbique. She was followed around by a misguided TB that was completely uninterested in looking for food, but seemed to think the cob was great. The cob used her native cunning to avoid the guy ropes, cars and folding chairs we had around the place while she hunted for food. The TB tripped over a guy rope, confused himself and cannoned into a car trying to escape The Tent of Doom.

Not living up to the stereotypes AT ALL
 
I think there should be a tax on cobs. They eat vast quantities of food that would be put to better use feeding the elderly, they produce vast quantities of (usually green and liquidy) poo, which cannot be good for the environment. They have yak like winter coats, which require immense amounts of electricity when it comes to clipping them, and they are probably responsible for the shocking state of Britains roads, the way they thump along them. I propose that the Government should seriously consider a cob tax. They are a drain on national resources.
 
Actually, I have thought of an idea to give cobs a job.

Imagine them stalled like cows, and collecting the vast quantities of poo that they produce and sell it at a huge profit to gardeners. Plus, the fact that they live on air means profit margins will be huge!
And, as a bonus, when they get older they could be sold to meat man and make you even richer!
:p
 
Of course it is much cheaper to fence a field for a cob, you only need a rail at knee height, cos they can't or won't jump. My tb and wb have to have five rails to keep them in.

K+t I don't think you can get grackles big enough to buckle up round a cob's head, though I may be wrong.
 
Never though of that suppose they will have to clip the hairy beasts then I wonder if you clipped go faster stripes onto them they would be able to move faster than a walk?
 
Phffft. Course cobs can move faster than walk. They can be speedy.

Just put a bucket of feed at the end of the yard and race them.

Its not true that a knee high fence will keep them in the field.

Just try free schooling them after a hack.

The cob will be so shocked that it'll jump the ménage fence to avoid any more attempts at increasing his fitness from his hapless owner.
 
Santa66 said:
Of course it is much cheaper to fence a field for a cob, you only need a rail at knee height, cos they can't or won't jump. My tb and wb have to have five rails to keep them in.

K+t I don't think you can get grackles big enough to buckle up round a cob's head, though I may be wrong.
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No that's wrong the fences are only a foot high because they walk through anything so a high fence is simply a waste of timber .
Stirrups leathers may be utilised to make a grackle ,looks awful but want the hell.
 
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