Josie beim Hengst (NDR Hofgeschichten)

In the morning in East Friesland at the Smidts. There is still enough to do on the deck station. Here, horse owners bring their rustic, i.e. mating-ready stags. This customer is about to be covered by one of the hens. In a natural leap. You have to pay close attention to whether the stags are also rustic and whether they want it or how they are on it. So that nothing happens. That it always goes safety first in the end. We have to pay a little attention to that. Come on, let's have a look. Because if the stags resist the approach, it can lead to injuries. In summer, the rustic usually enters every three weeks. Then they stand and blink and pee. And I notice that right away when the stag is on the track. When he stands there and pees, then I can leave the stag unattended. Artificial mating is now common in horse breeding. But not with Albert Smidt. Albert's breeding stag celebration. The stag can already smell it from a distance. Oh dear. They both already know what's going on. The stag knows it and it does it too. It's already wide-legged. Albert has to keep an eye on the excited stag right when the deck is used. Clear role distribution in East Friesland. His daughters get the stag to ride out of the box and Albert Smidt to deck. Celebration can tell the difference. Oh, Kelly, Celebration. Oh, come on. Come on, Kelly, to work. Come to work. Oh, oh. Why don't you want to? Oh, come here. Normally, the stag is lazy. It's good. Oh, oh. The smell of the stag and Albert as horse leader, the stag knows what's going to happen now. I need a little space. Oh, oh, come. Stags need clear rules and consistent behavior of the horse keeper so that it's not dangerous. Oh, oh. Oh, he's good. Oh, oh. It doesn't always work right away. You can push him around a little. I think he's a little too high back there. Or a little forward. Bring him back here, please. So that he's a little higher up front. Albert has been breeding checked horses for more than 50 years. It's all routine. Yes, like that. See, now it works. The angle has to be right. It goes on a few more times. A stag is rusty for just under 7 days. Look, now the shot is gone. He's falling asleep. Come, Kelly, come. Come, that's good. He's shot his powder for today. Not only horse friends come to Albert who want checked foals, but also those where artificial breeding is unsuccessful. Come. That's good, Kelly. On many breeding stations, the stag breeds a dummy. The sperm is then processed and thinned. When they are artificially bred, when they take off the hens' feces, they can also take off the foals. It's not a portion. A horse doesn't become a horse. It's portioned. Again and again, Albert's horse offspring grow into the big stag.