COUNTRYFILE viewers were left stunned by the “odd” breakfast the show’s presenter Adam Henson dished up for his cows. The BBC host was eager to ensure his cattle had the best start possible to their day – courtesy of a trough filled with soy beans, silage and sugar molasses. Adam, 55, plunged his hand into […]
COUNTRYFILE viewers were left stunned by the “odd” breakfast the show’s presenter Adam Henson dished up for his cows.
The BBC host was eager to ensure his cattle had the best start possible to their day – courtesy of a trough filled with soy beans, silage and sugar molasses.
Adam, 55, plunged his hand into the raw ingredients as he explained to viewers how the cows’ meals had been prepared over the winter.
He served them to the hundreds of livestock courtesy of his “green contraption” feed wagon – operated by a man called Luke during the BBC One episode, and added: “What it is, is a great big mixer, and in here we put some straw, some silage, minerals, beans, barley, and then it’s all mixed up in there like a great big cake mixer, and then it shoots out the side, feed them all and they help themselves!”
Adam told how the mixture is “nutritionally balanced to give the 200 or so animals exactly what they need.”
Countryfile‘s Twitter page also flagged the “special recipe full of fibre, proteins and energy.”
Yet despite the farmer’s assertions, those watching at home were not convinced.
One BBC One viewer took to Twitter to write: “CountryFile is showing what Cattle are fed; Sugar from sugar beet, soya beans, straw, silage. Soya beans and the sugar molasses sounds a little odd to us.”
A second joked: “What’s for tea mum? Molasses, beans and fermented grass again.” as a third then quipped: “Adam thinks he’s competition for Kellogg’s… #countryfile.”
Another surmised: “I’ll give the pickled silage a miss ta.”
Earlier in the episode, the dad-of-two explained the winter routine for his animals.
Adam said: “Most of our livestock are indoors back at the sheds.
“We bought a lot of the animals into the sheds in November and December time, really to keep them warm and dry and give them easy access to food and to stop them trashing the fields and turning them into a mud bath!
“You can see they all look very content in there now. But with around 60 cows and 500-odd sheep to feed, that puts a lot of pressure on the farm to give them all the food and bedding all winter, and so we feed well over 100 tonnes of grub to these animals.
“There’s a lot of work.”
Adam has over 50 flocks of rare breed animals at his Cotswolds home, Cotswold Farm Park, which he runs with pal Duncan Andrews.
He joined the show in 2001 when he applied to join and was chosen out of 3,500 applicants.
In December, Adam had viewers in hysterics after an innuendo-filled segment on the rural show.
He in another memorable episode, he was a little sheepish after losing control of his flock in Stratford-on-Avon’s aptly-named Sheep Street.
Countryfile airs every Sunday at 6pm, on BBC One.
