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Boydells Dairy Farm

Most of the usual farm animals are to be found here, but, unlike other open farms, you get a guided tour with lots of hands-on stuff. Try your hand at milking a cow, feeding hens, riding a donkey cart or outstaring a llama. The chief part of your visit will be the sheep milking which takes place in a modern "rapid exit" parlour, milking batches of 18 ewes at a time.

The farm covers 42 hectares (105 acres) all of which is used to produce food for the animals, mainly in the form of grass although about 8 acres of maize are grown for making into silage. Some of the grass is made into hay. The 300 milking ewes and their offspring constitute the bulk of the livestock, but they also have cattle, goats, pigs and poultry, plus pony, donkey and llama.

 

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