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Country Life for Friday 6 November 2009

  • Horsing Around

    9:35 PM.Each year Gisborne hosts a large horse sale. It's a decades old event where broken and unbroken horses are sold. Buyers arrive from all over the North Island because"Gissy"horses are seen as sound… Read more Audio

  • Out for a duck

    9:17 PM.Mid-Canterbury fowl breeder and judge Roger McCormick has had an interesting collection of rare breed ducks. Audio

  • Regional Wrap

    9:05 PM.Sunshine is needed around the entire country. October was generally cold and wet and dreary. Audio

  • Intro and guest

    9:05 PM.Mike Peterson, the chairman of Meat and Wool New Zealand talks about the budgets cuts that are being made after farmers voted to cease funding the wool levy Audio

Penned up, unbroken horses at the Matawhero Saleyards.

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Alan Hobbs at the Annual Gisborne Horse Fair.

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Roger McCormick and Cosmo Kentish-Barnes talking duck.

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A couple of Roger's Cayuga ducks waddle through a paddock.

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Cosmo peers into an old feeding tube where a Khaki Campbell duck is nesting.

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Two Khaki Campbell chicks hatch in the hidden nest.

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