Not long after we arrived it was the scheduled time for egg hunting - they use real eggs and hide them in and on various hay bales in an area that was closed off by hay bales. Between them Ethan and Owen collected about a dozen eggs with no breakages! A bit different from Easter, instead of candy they got a bag of bread for the ducks!
Grandma bought them each a bag of feed that could be given to goats among other animals, so next we headed out of the central barn to feed some goats outside, after first feeding the ducks with the bread. In addition to goats they had a couple of wooly pigs, a couple of llamas, a couple of dwarf ponies, and various ducks, geese and chickens.
Next we headed back into the main barn as it was time to stroke and feed the rabbits and guinea pigs. They had a lop-eared rabbit called Angel, two guinea pigs called Honey and Jet, and another rabbit called Chilli. Both Ethan and Owen enjoyed stroking the soft fluffy animals.
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| It's sooo fluffy! |
Then the boys were allowed to bottle feed some lambs. If I understood correctly, the lambs were from triplets and essentially they were orphans - presumably the runts would not be fed by the mother, so they have to be bottle fed instead. Despite a school party going ahead of us to feed the lambs, they were a hungry bunch and drank pretty much all that was offered.
There was a play barn that had an indoor zipline, and so we had some fun playing on that until it was time for the hayride. The hayride was pretty much the last thing we planned to do there and we all went along. At a couple of points around the ride they have a passive infra-red sensor, or perhaps a break-beam sensor that activates a water sprayer, so everyone got a good dowsing as we went around.
After looking in the shop we headed back to the caravan for lunch and so BOTH boys could take a nap, they both really needed it!
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