The alpacas found themselves with quite a number of visitors in their yard one evening last week. I was in the farmyard with Jill and Kent when they called over to me to come see the frog eggs in the alpaca pool. I rescued as many eggs as I could and moved them to a 5 gallon bucket. I say rescued only because we drain and scrub the pool daily and these eggs were soon to be “thrown out withRead more
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Watermelons!
For Memorial Day, six watermelons were donated for our bears to celebrate the holiday. Below are a few pictures of them enjoying their tasty treat! Read more
Hay Stacks
The biggest barn in the Farmyard is used to house our tools, bedding and hay. Loading hay into the Hay Barn generally takes a few people, mostly because we get a little competitive and stack as quickly as possible (7 minutes and change was our best time to load 70 bales into the barn!). This needs to happen every 6 to 8 weeks depending on how many bales we order (or how many our local farm has to offer us),Read more
Lounging Around
Look who is enjoying a nice sunny day… The Red Ruffed Lemurs like to spend time in their side cages when the weather is nice. Iris has found a great spot to kick back and relax.Read more
What is in the traffic cone?
What do you think is in the traffic cone that Gus is playing with in the bear side yard? He really liked it and did not want to leave the bear house until he was finished. Read more
Pig Yard: then and now
I’ve talked about changes with the pigs’ home a couple of times during the past month. (Here and here). Here’s what the pigs’ home used to look like: In March, we tore down this old yard (an original from when the Farmyard was first built) and built a larger yard set back into the woods. Then in April and May, we worked on building a new barn for the pigs. And now that it is done: Come check theRead more