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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: deepinthewoods on August 06, 2012, 07:14:43 pm
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this years foal is drummer, last yrs is beauty, sired by william fromthe shire horse and carraige museum in redruth, well worth a visit....
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:love:
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Lovely - both of them :D
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Thanks for this - they are lovely. There should be more of them :fc:
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i know im sorry, i got a bit distracted! drummer was super friendly and kept barging me whilst i was taking the fotos! i might have some of beauty from last year, but theyll take some dredging up. i might be some time...
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beautiful!
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Thanks for this - they are lovely. There should be more of them :fc:
aaah, more suffolk punches!! :-[
they are rarer than giant pandas by all accounts, but harry gotts, who runs the farm is an amazing bloke, theyve got ten ish at any one time, and william (who is the proudest, most stunning stallion ever!) has sired 9 (i think) now, theyve just found a mare who has american genes in her so will now hopefully provide the fresh genes needed for the gene pool in the uk. the mothers will kick a foal to death if too closely bred. im sure any donations would be gratefully recieved, they struggled to tax the lorry for the pontipridd parade...
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Lovely pics. I saw two Suffolk Punchs at the Bakewell show lastweek, in the heavy horse driving class. Lovely to see. Something you seem very rarely nowadays.
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great pics :thumbsup:
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im sure any donations would be gratefully recieved, they struggled to tax the lorry for the pontipridd parade...
Where do I send a cheque? :excited: :excited:
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They are :love:
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Shes very very lovely, I love SPs, gorgeous noble beasts.
Whats the Society stance on the white markings,I thought they had to have none?
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i dont know about the white, most of them just have a white 'star' on their forehead.
sq, harry gotts Lower Grillis Farm Treskillard, Redruth, Cornwall TR16 6LA, ;)
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according to wiki '' Horses of the breed come in many different shades of chestnut, ranging from dark to red to light.[5] Suffolk horse breeders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_breeding) in the UK use several different colour terms specific to the breed, including dark liver (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_(color)), dull dark, red and bright.[6] White markings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_markings) are rare and generally limited to small areas on the face and lower legs''
according to harry, 2 sp's can easily pull 12 tonnes :o
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Aww bless.
We have two Suffolks, a mare and her gelding son. Eat us out of house and home in the winter the amount of hay they get! They can even beat our Highland ponies in the amount they can eat and they've got hollow hooves :D
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Beautiful :thumbsup:
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Gorgeous. :love: :love: