The last of the Fallow Deer are back! How many deer can you count?!
Our 2025 round up is complete and we are ready for visitors! 🦌
OPEN today! Come feed the animals!
Hurry up!! You’re going to miss the fun! 🐃
Our animals can’t wait to see all of our awesome visitors again after being closed for a few days. Our official opening date is TODAY! (February 1st)
Come feed the animals!
The 2025 season has begun! We will officially be back OPEN beginning tomorrow, February 1st. We will have wagon rides available and the drive thru open.
Our yearly roundup was very successful this year and the weather, people, and animals cooperated! Take a look at a raw, general video below of how we bring the animals from the catch pen, through the lanes, and onto the trailers to be moved to a different barn for testing. We are working on much more content for you and will be posting more behind the scenes videos and photos. but in the meantime..... Come feed the animals!
Guess who’s back?! Most of our cattle were turned back into the drive thru today after their vaccinations, bloodwork and testing!
The weather and the animals have cooperated so well this week we are excited to announce we will be back OPEN this Saturday, February 1st! We are working on more photos and videos to share with you but wanted to make this announcement.
We hope to see you this weekend!
🤠Sneak peek at the first day of catching! 🤠
We are thankful for beautiful weather and cooperative cattle! Here’s just one of many views we will be posting as we go. Everything is going smooth so far! Thanks for watching and have a great evening!
The last few of our Percheron draft horses are being turned out across the road today for some vacation time! We will use their pasture to catch the animals for our vaccinations and testing. Stay tuned for more information.!
We are currently closed . We will continue to update with an opening date. Thank you for watching.
Take a look at how we work our animals through different gates and chutes for their annual vaccinations and testing. We are now CLOSED for approximately 2 weeks. Please check back for updates on our progress.
The yearly roundup begins!
Each year about a month before catching time, we move the feeding to the catch pen where we can easily close the gate. Most animals are coming in the pen but some of the smaller ones such as deer, Aoudad sheep, and tahr goats will need more practice! Black shade cloth is hung from all of the fences in the catch pens and lanes to help relieve the stress on the animals. Most animals do not grasp the concept of a fence as a human would and when in a pressure situation they would run at the wire fence and try to push through it like it were brush in the wild. The presence of the shade cloth makes it a solid structure in their eyes and greatly reduces the chance that they will run at the fence lines to try and push through them. This decreases the risk for something to hurt itself and also makes it much easier for them to locate the openings since it goes from a solid black line to an open gate. Most of the larger animals such as watusi, buffalo, and llamas will easily follow the fence line and be caught while other such as blackbuck antelope and several species of deer will be much more difficult. The animals are funneled from the larger catch pens into a series of smaller catch pens and then into lanes where they are loaded on the trailers and taken to the barns to be tested, wormed and vaccinated.
We will be CLOSED beginning Monday January 26th, hopefully for about 2 weeks. We will be updating our expected open date frequently. Please continue to follow our progress this winter and feel free to ask any questions!
Drive thru hours this weekend: Saturday 9-5, Sunday 12-5. Please plan to arrive by 4pm. Have a great week!
📣 Sound up! 📣
Rainy day fun! Most of our draft horses made the yearly trek across the highway today for their winter vacation. (Don’t worry, we still have wagon rides by reservation!) This move will allow us to utilize the horse pasture during our annual roundup and vaccination time that will begin Monday, January 27th with the last day being open Sunday January 26th.
More details and video on that to come so be sure to follow along! 🐴
Headed out to pasture at the end of a long day!
Their work is done for the day! 💪
After wagon rides, our Percheron horses that pull the wagons are unharnessed and hosed off in the wash bay. Dont worry, they still have plenty of energy to put on a show when being turned out to pasture for the night! This video features Jane (and her work partner, Bob, waiting for her at the end!) 🐴
Father’s Day Special- All dads get in FREE! 👨
We are open regular hours everyday and have wagon rides going. Remember, you can feed the animals from your car also!! Come see us!
