Head Over Hooves Farm Sanctuary

04/21/2025

Happy Easter, farm friends 🐰🐣💐

04/16/2025

🐴 Farm Visits 🐷

We wanted to give some info about our private farm visits, since we’ve had a lot of inquiries with the nicer weather rolling in ☺️

All visits to the farm require an appointment. We do not accept drop-in visits, and unfortunately there are no exceptions to this.

The best way to reach us is through Facebook messenger! Same-day or last minute appointments are not always possible, as we don’t often check messages throughout the day since we are busy tending to the farmily and with appointments.

During the hour-long visit, you will have a guided tour of the farm and have a chance to learn about, interact with, and feed treats to our farmily members. All children will also have the opportunity to ride a pony at the end of your visit 🦄.

Please message us for more info and availability!

04/11/2025

Saturdays Easter/Spring Event Canceled

Unfortunately we’ve decided to cancel our class for this Saturday, 4/12 due to the weather forecast. For those that have purchased tickets, refunds have been issued via Eventbrite. Please let us know if you have not received your refund within 24hrs so we can look into it for you. Sorry for the last minute decision, we were hoping the forecast would change but unfortunately it’s not looking that way 😕

04/09/2025

Baby Moo just celebrated her 2nd birthday a few days ago, and has the most amazing home where she’s spoiled rotten with our friend Alyssa and her husband Josh ❤️

It was a very rough start for Hopie (now named Agnes 🥰), but we never doubted her strength and were so happy to be a part of her journey 💖

04/07/2025

Our Bubs, pre-face lift 🥰

04/04/2025

Our 4th annual Bubba’s Bash is already a month away! We hope to see everyone on Saturday, 5/3 from 10am-4pm 🐷☺️
(Link to event in comments)

We only host 2 public events each year, one in the spring and the other in the fall. Both of these events are so important to us, but Bubba’s Bash holds a very special place in our hearts.

4 years ago, we got a message from a farm friend asking if we could foster a pig named Bubba while Bubs’ family moved (our friend was not Bubba’s owner, just another animal lover trying to help). We initially said we weren’t able to help but a few days later, I felt pulled to reach back out to see if they found a foster yet. I couldn’t get this pig off of my mind, and they said they hadn’t found anyone yet.

After getting in contact with Bubba’s original owner and seeing pictures of him, we agreed to take him in, but not as a foster. Bubba would be staying with us permanently. He spent the first 4 years of his life living in a Philadelphia row home, confined to a wire dog cage in their dining room, and the situation was MUCH worse than we expected once we saw him in person. He was morbidly obese, weighing close to 200lbs, and fat blind. Bubba was being fed a diet of bird seed and junk food (we found pudding cups and ice pop wrappers in his mess of a cage upon our arrival to get him), paired with absolutely no physical activity. His tusks and hooves were years overgrown, and his feet were poking his belly when he tried to walk. This is no way for a pig (or any animal, for that matter) to live 😔

We made the almost 2 hour drive to pick him up and headed right to Quakertown Vet to be assessed by Dr. Wilber’s, because I didn’t want to wait the few days until our scheduled appointment. He shook his head in disappointment when he saw Bubs, but told us Bubba was young enough to live a great life in our care, and with the help Dr Wilber’s, we came up with his care plan.

We worked at gaining Bubba’s trust for the first few weeks, as he was not handling the change well (and being fat blind did not help at ALL). He was depressed, angry, and distant. It took about 2 weeks before I could touch him without him grumping at me, and before I could touch his face without him snapping. He slowly learned we were here to help him, and came out of his shell.

We were told it would take Bubba 3-4 years to lose the weight he needed to be healthy…we did it in 11 months 🤩🤩🤩
A year and a half after joining the farmily, Bubba had surgery to remove the fat folds that were covering his eyes. This was life-changing for him…being able to see his pig friends, our faces, and the beautiful farm he’ll spend the rest of his life on, made him the happiest pig you could imagine. We realized almost 2 years ago that Bubba can no longer hear, so we’re even more thankful he has his vision back ❤️

This is why we dedicate our spring festival every year to Bubba, because he’s an absolute rockstar and deserves to be celebrated for how far he’s come. Because of events like this, and support from our farm friends, we can give animals like Bubba and most recently Nova, a fresh start to life, and make them feel love like they never knew was possible 💖

04/04/2025

More spots available for bunny photos on 4/12! 🐰💐

04/03/2025

Super Nova had her sutures removed this week, and what a perfect girl she was 🥹🥰

She let me hold her in my lap while Dr Wilbers removed her c-section sutures, and she didn’t move a muscle. He was very impressed by how well-behaved and trusting she was, and said on a scale of 1-10, she’s a 10 because not many pigs would be so calm during a suture removal. Of course we already knew she’s just the most perfect girl 💖

Nova’s recovery has been great, and aside from her having trouble getting comfortable and getting herself stuck in uncomfortable positions the first week, it couldn’t have gone better.

Thank you to everyone that sent donations, well wishes, and support in any way for our sweet Novie girl. She certainly felt all the love, and so did we ❤️

04/02/2025

This is not an April Fools joke!! 🤩

We were so excited to find out today that we’ve been voted best farm in Bucks County through for the third year in a row 🥹❤️

Thank you to everyone who voted! We have the best farm friends we could ever ask for 🙏🏼❤️

04/01/2025

Please share!

Tickets still available for our Easter/spring class on 4/12! You can purchase them through the link in original post 💐🦙🦙🌸

Not only are events like this fun, but they help us support the farmily ❤️ Hope to see you there!

🐰Easter Class 🐣

We’re so excited to announce that we’re teaming up with Life With Monroe once again for an Easter/Spring-themed class on Saturday 4/12, from 10:30am-11:30am!

The first 30 minutes of class will consist of your child (or children) making a take-home craft, and the last 30 minutes of class will be lots of animal interaction, and a photo opportunity with everyone’s favorite alpacas, Cadbury and Klondike!

Tickets can be purchased through the eventbrite link in the comments. We hope to see you there!

Adorable picture below is one that was sent to us from last years class 🦙🦙🩵

03/31/2025

03/28/2025

Apollo’s TSC trip a few years ago 😄🐪

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