We have beautiful truly free range chickens, of different varieties and sizes which roam around the barns and grass, and provide us with wonderful eggs. In the spring and summer we often have chicks or ducklings running about too. The 9 ducks spend most of their time in the pond.
We incubate and raise baby chicks, and ducklings in the spring and summer.
We have 3 guinea pigs, (Marmite, Honey and Goofy-Donald) who spend their days munching through as much grass, fruit and vegetables as they can get.
Little Mo and Minky are working cats, but they are very friendly.
A local farmer grazes sheep in the fields during Autumn, winter and spring. We have started a small flock (4) Southdown sheep in April this year. These are a local rare breed of sheep which are fairly small hardy sheep. We hope to add to this flock in the spring, and hope our own lambs will be born in 2011. We also take in a few orphaned or rejected lambs each year to bottle feed. We really love any guests helping us out with this!
Our 3 very handsome alpacas are called George, Ben and Elvis. They are all 4 years old and are ‘employed’ by us as lawnmowers and as fox deterrents. They are still quite shy, but we usually eat out of our hands. Ben is the Alpaca in charge and likes nothing more than eating apples and carrots!
All of these animals are overseen by our friendly gentle old Golden Retriever – Clifford.
Any of our guests, particularly the younger ones, are very welcome to help feed and look after the animals.
October 2009 Update: Shhh…. The bees have gone to sleep. They have been fed over the autumn and are now settled in for a long sleep till spring
Please check out our Blog to see the latest news on all the animals.
Duckling in the farmyard August 2009.
