Horton Park Farm is closed for re-development

 

 

Visit our Cuddling Corner where the children can enjoy holding  baby rabbits, chicks and ducklings with a member of staff on hand to help and encourage.

 

 

 

 

 

 This years lambs have now grown and their coats are getting thicker to prepare them for the colder weather to come.

 

 

 

The inquisitive donkeys are always looking for someone to feed them. We have special feeding tubes so even the youngest of our visitors can enjoy giving them some food

 

 

As the daylight hours grow less in Autumn and Winter the hens lay less eggs. However here is one of our young visitors who has taken an egg straight from the nest and will enjoy it for his tea.

 

 

      

 

 

 We are very excited about the arrival of a new male pig,he is an Oxford Sandy and Black and he is called Cider, maybe because he likes eating apples. For some time now our piglets have all been saddlebacks, that is black with a pink stripe around their middle.As the male determines the appearance of the piglets we are hoping that we will now start getting some different colours. A pig is pregnant for three months three weeks and three days so by mid November you may be the first to discover the colour of the new piglets.

 

 

 

Here is a litter of Saddleback piglets. Most litters contain between eight to twelve piglets and these piglets can be seen feeding hungrily in the Pig Yard.They are called Saddlebacks for obvious reasons.

 

 

 

 

   We have had lots of pygmy goat kids born this year. Here is one family, a boy and a girl called Sky and Storm with their mother Sheba. She will feed them until they are three months old, longer if they stay with her. They also eat hay and goat mix.

 

 

 

     

Rhianna our rhea, and her partner, Rio, have successfully hatched their chicks.The chicks in the photo are now grown but we are hopeful that there will be more chicks later this year.You will be able to see them running around in the field behind Pippin the Peacock. They are very protective of their young and if you get too close they will soon warn you off.

 

 

 

 

Baby chicks for the children to hold can usually be found in Fred`s Farm, near the ducks, where they can also stroke our friendly rabbits.

 

 

In the animal yard the children are able to get up close to some of the larger animals. Jack, the llama, is always looking for a stroke but beware, he has been known to spit, and the shetland ponies love their noses to be rubbed. 

 

We also have cows, goats, donkeys, alpacas, llamas, ponies, chickens, chinchillas, tortoise, reptiles, pheasants and numerous smaller creatures to delight your children.

 

 

 

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