Hovick Family Farm Petting Zoo, LLC

01/07/2024

We are offering our first ever sale! See details in the photo and share with daycares and retirement facilities in your area!

26/06/2024

We have fallen way behind on posting our babies for the year! So here are a few pictures from over the past month and a half or so of some of the babies we’ve had born. So far we’ve had 2 more baby llamas, 1 baby alpaca, 15 baby goats, 1 calf, and 6 lambs!

21/04/2024

Dandelion had a baby girl this afternoon! She has the white park coloring we were hoping for! Dandelion isn't able to produce milk so we will bottle feed the baby like we have her last few calves, but we let them live together for comfort.

19/04/2024

Congratulations Daffodil on the birth of your baby girl!!!! 💕💜🩷

31/03/2024

Happy Easter from our family to yours! We were blessed with a baby llama tonight. It’s a girl! 🩷 Chloe (the mother) is the very first llama/animal that we bought together. She is the beginning of what became our petting zoo ☺️

09/03/2024

2024 Public Events (as of 06/25/2024)

June 27th 5:00pm-7:30pm Beats & Eats, Ankeny Market Pavilion
June 30th 2:00pm-3:00pm Sunnyview Care Center, Ankeny
July 4th 12:00pm-4:00pm Carlisle 4th of July Festival, Carlisle
July 20th 11:00am-1:00pm Hudson Days, Hudson
July 27th 11:00am-3:00pm Swisher Fun Days, Swisher
July 28th 1:00pm-5:00pm Hamilton County Fair, Webster City
August 6th 5:00pm-7:30pm National Night Out, Urbandale Police Department
August 22nd 5:00pm-7:00pm Pella Town Square, Pella
August 24th 11:00am-3:00pm Granger Days, Granger
September 7th 9:00am-12:00pm Ames Main Street Farmers’ Market, Ames
September 14th 12:00pm-4:00pm Watermelon Days, Lorimor
October 4th 5:00pm-8:00pm Grandview University Homecoming, Des Moines
October 5th 2:00pm-6:00pm Windsor Heights Fall Festival
October 6th 10:00am-4:00pm The Community Orchard, Ft. Dodge (they charge admission)
October 12th 9:00am-12:00pm Ames Main Street Farmers’ Market, Ames
October 13th 10:00am-4:00pm The Community Orchard, Ft. Dodge (they charge admission)
October 17th 3:00pm-6:00pm Norwalk Library Halloween, Norwalk
October 20th 10:00am-4:00pm The Community Orchard, Ft. Dodge (they charge admission)
December 8th 5:00pm-7:00pm Heartland Baptist Church Nativity, Ames

13/02/2024

Baby llama girl born this morning (spotted one) and baby alpaca boy born February 3rd (white one). The alpaca visited Walter's preschool on Thursday.

01/01/2024

We want to thank everyone for an amazing 2023! We had 95 petting zoos along with a new born, Bridget, in January! Here is a picture of our last baby animal for 2023! A sweet little doeling 🥰 We wish you a blessed 2024!

22/11/2023

We have updated to our logo to better reflect who we are and are putting in an order for new clothing and hats. If you want to order shirts, sweatshirts, hats, etc. you can by clicking on https://hovickpettingzooretail.itemorder.com/shop/home/
Our store closes on Friday, December 15th, so make sure you get your apparel ordered by then. If there are any items that you want that we don't have listed just ask, we just put the most popular items in our store.

17/10/2023

Lil Sprite had a baby boy on October 4th! He is very soft and fluffy ☺️

09/09/2023

Fifi had a beautiful and tiny baby boy a couple of days ago!

28/08/2023

Two more babies this morning! Congratulations Keegan on your twins! 1 boy and 1 girl 😍🩵🩷

27/08/2023

Congratulations Blossom!!! It’s a girl!🩷🩷🩷

27/07/2023

We will not be in Ankeny this evening due to the heat.

15/07/2023

Everyone who came and visited us today at the Salvation Army's Christmas in July event got the first visits to our new additions. A 2 week old baby Yak, 6 month old Valais Black Nose lamb, a new Angora Goat, and a 1 year old Mini White Park Heifer. We will get more pictures posted soon.

29/06/2023

Congratulations Lacey on your baby boy!!! 🦙

24/06/2023

We are headed north to Ciulter Fun Day from noon to 3!

17/06/2023

We are in Greene for Greene River Days until 3:30 this afternoon.

10/06/2023

We are in Jewell for Jewell Jubilee until 11 this morning!

23/05/2023

Cedar Rapids, you can visit us this Friday at the Kernels game!

It's time to get ready for Yellowstone Night with the Kernels on Friday, May 26.
The first 1,000 early arriving fans at the ballpark will receive a Yellowstone Dutton Ranch hat! Fans can also visit the Hovick Family Farm Petting Zoo on the concourse throughout the game!

Tickets ➡ https://bit.ly/3ZR4DOZ

20/05/2023

We are at the Uptown Ankeny Farmers' Market until noon today.

30/09/2022

27/08/2022

We will be at Granger Days tomorrow from 11-3. We will post here if they make any changes due to rain.

26/08/2022

We are at Huxley's Prairie Fest until 8 this evening!