Our Livestock Barn is a great place to introduce children of all ages to farm animals. We have several different farm animals in our Livestock Barn who live here year around, including a very friendly cow named Flossie, a donkey, some sheep, goats, bunnies, pot belly pigs & sometimes ‘ole Tex, one of our horses comes in for a visit too. Due to the concern surrounding Bird Flu earlier this year, we do not have any chickens or ducks in our Barn right now. This flu is widespread in wild birds & has caused human cases in both US Dairy & Poultry workers. There have been 70 confirmed cases in people in the US with one death, but none of these cases have been east of Ohio. The current public health risk is considered low, but out of an abundance of caution, we chose to not have any birds in our barn this season to put everyone at ease about safety.

For school groups, if you’d like an actual presentation on farm animals or the type of farming practices we use here to correlate with what you might be studying in school, just let us know. We can usually accommodate whatever topic & age group you have. We particularly like to stress the significance of heritage breeds for today’s agriculture as well as the importance of locally grown foods. Depending on the ages of your group members, we can give a Farm Tour where we talk about each of the types of animals we have & what they are used for.

Although we don’t have live chickens, we DO have HATHAWAY’S HENS, OUR SINGING CHICKEN SHOW!!! These little chickens put on a couple different shows throughout the day in the Livestock Barn where they sing & have interactive activities with the kids. Great Fun!! You can also give a try at our Milking Cow Contest too & take some pictures with our “dairy cows” (on a banner) that are the background to the milking cow.