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Would this be something you'd watch?

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Sarahlou63 · 01/05/2020 10:30

Pre CV my DP worked away as a freelance project manager, I ran equine assisted training communication, team-building leadership courses with our lovely herd of horses. Obviously this work has come to a grinding halt and is unlikely to restart before next spring.

As an alternative to people physically visiting our farm we're thinking about using CCTV/webcams to livestream our horses (and chickens, goats and dogs). We've got about 3 hectares of wooded, hilly land with a track system that encourages the horses to meander around as they would in the wild and the chickens and goats have a large garden during the day. In addition to the cameras we'd show occasional training videos, drone flights and a chat room so people could ask questions about the animals.

Would this be something you'd watch? If you're WFH and frazzled, would watching animals doing not a lot other than being animals help? It wouldn't be pay per view as we've got the cameras for security (never used!) so all we'd have to do is move them to focus on the horses. What do you think?

YABU - waste of time

YANBU - yes, I'd tune in

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Khione · 02/05/2020 23:37

One of the few things that I'm really chilling to at the moment is watching the different birds visiting the feeder.

Mostly finches (green, gold, bull and chaff) with a couple of blackbirds and robins. I find it so relaxing so yes, I would happily watch horses do the same. Preferably in real life but the screen would do too.

MichonnesBBF · 03/05/2020 00:28

Ok. Is there a possibility in being able to get schools involved for recommendations to your link. Allow children to access the day and life of working on a farm?
Make it educational in a loose way, be open to questions, set challenges (hide a farm object hidden in the back round)/quiz/ factual explanations without being monotonous?
There may be more interest thìs way.

My local farm (uk) are carrying out virtual tours, discussing who, what, why questions.
Showing the hatching of baby chicks and there on going care. Feeding the lambs, discussing how feeds are distributed again the who, what, why questions.
The school promote it and the farm kindly ask for donations...Currently i think it is working well for them even for just the short term.
Might be something to think about?

Sarahlou63 · 03/05/2020 16:01

@MichonnesBBF - thanks for your comments. The videos are public so schools are very welcome to watch them and ask questions. Here's the footage from yesterday -

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Want2beme · 03/05/2020 19:30

It's lovely to spend some time with your beautiful horses in a lovely location. Thank you for sharing them and your other animals. I've subscribed.

Picklypickles · 03/05/2020 19:47

I personally wouldn't watch it no, but I am lucky enough to be able to see ponies/sheep/cows and squirrels from my kitchen window.

Sarahlou63 · 04/05/2020 11:48

Today's video diary - horses need masks too!

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