BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 12:49:00
Today there are 4000 worldwide, but only 600 or 15% are actively breeding. so the exmoor pony society is creating a gene bank. they need 25 stallions to take part. we like to think of it as an insurance policy. so what we're doing is, is collecting semen from stallions and we're trying to do a cross section of the whole breed, and that semen will be stored in a bank. and then, heaven forbid, if the wheel comes off with any of the ponies or the breed as a whole, we've got something to go back to. and, you know, we create them, if you like. alan partridge is the first to perform. he's at a ferti...