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Horse milk has been a staple of Central Asian cuisine for centuries but now one farmer wants to introduce the drink to Britons.
Frank Shellard, 62, owns family farm Combe Hay, Somerset, and sells the mare s milk, as it is also known, of his 14 horses.
Each individual 250ml bottle sells for £6.50 and Mr Shellard said the health benefits of the drink have seen his customer base expand rapidly in the past few years.
The farm now sells to 150 people, with an increase in health and environmental consciousness causing a surge in demand.
But Mr Shellard, who also runs the stables at celebrity hotspot Soho Farmhouse in the Cotswolds, admitted that trading standards were initially taken aback when he suggested he wanted to start selling the product.