Haley Family Petting Zoos

06/15/2024

We had a fun birthday party in Olathe.

05/30/2024

New mixed twins

05/30/2024

Something is moving in the back of the pasture.

05/18/2024

We are doing a private birthday at New Longview this afternoon. The animals are enjoying a little dry weather.

04/11/2024

We will be at Faith City Christian Center on Sunday from 11am to 1pm. All are welcome to drop by. It is at 2500 S 44th in KCK, just off 635 and Shawnee Drive.

04/04/2024

We will have several of the animals at the fairgrounds in Paola this Saturday between 10 and 2. It is a free event.

04/03/2024

Baby ward update.

03/31/2024

Farm spotlight. Moose and Wilson, security team.

03/30/2024

8 baby goats in 24 hours. N5 and M5 had twins last night and I had more babies when I got home this afternoon. Pearl had mixed twins, a giant boy and a tiny girl. Miss Fabulous had mixed twins that were more evenly matched.

03/23/2024

Truity in Lawrence had a great turn out

03/23/2024

Claire had triplets last night. They are all loud and opinionated. They are too fresh to take on today's pettung zoos. We will be at Truity Credit Union in Lawrence from 10 to noon. Claire's mom, Billie will be there along with Hollywood, Tulip, Dash and Violet.

03/17/2024

We had a private birthday party today in Shawnee. Tulip and her babies were there along with Billie and Hollywood.

03/05/2024

We have a public event coming up in Paola. There will be lots of ag related displays.

02/23/2024

Small Fry update

02/23/2024

Small Fry dropped a baby girl between 6 and 7

02/20/2024

Big Mac had mixed twins this morning.

02/19/2024

Ewe 251 had twin boys thid morning.

02/16/2024

Snowflake had twins this morning.

01/29/2024

Animal profile - Billie. We got Billie in 2012 from Teresa Prothe when she had to move and could not take the goat with her. Billie originally came from Deanna Rose Farm and was raised with dogs and did not spend a lot of time with other goats. To this day she laps water like a dog.
Billie had her first baby, T Bone in 2013. The next year she had 7 babies, triplets in January and quads in September. Claire was one of her quads that we kept for breeding. Billie has been retired from breeding for a couple years but she keeps trying to sneak in with the boys.
In 2023 she did a photo shoot for Kansas Lottery as The GOAT. She wore goggles and chewed on lottery tickets. It was great and she was very patient. Unfortunately the commercials never aired.
Billie is the easiest goat to handle. She is always eager to get chin scratches and eat range cubes. We are not sure of her age but we know she is at least 14.

01/26/2024

Animal profile- Diamond is our second oldest ewe born January 24th of 2013. She was a show lamb but is now retired from the show circuit and breeding. She goes to petting zoos and acts as grandma to the weanlings. When we wean lambs at 2 months of age, we pull them from their dams and put them in with Diamond or Lucy. Neither produces milk so the babies transition to solid food but they are comforted by having adults around.
Diamond enjoys the cold weather. While the goats and yearling sheep were in the barn last week, Diamond was sleeping outside, only coming into the barn to eat and drink.

01/11/2024

Tulip had mixed twins about 5am today. The girl went into the next pen to visit the young goats.

12/04/2023

We have selected the junior does that we will be giving away to Miami County 4Hers in March.

11/20/2023

Hey apartment people, do you have dry straw, corn or pumpkin that needs to be removed Friday? I will be around Friday picking up fall displays and feeding them to the sheep.

11/01/2023

It's that time of year. Leftover pumpkins are being given to the sheep and goats. United Methodist Church of Shawnee gave us these. If anyone has nonpainted pumpkins, corn stalks or dry straw bales that they would like removed, give me a call.

10/08/2023

A new fawn and white drake is introduced to the flock.

09/23/2023

Sheep and goats are washed and ready for a birthday party in Leavenworth. The chickens and ducks are self-cleaning so that's a time saver.

09/06/2023

We will have our sheep goats chickens and ducks at this event. Everyone is welcome.

Next weekend is looking beautiful!! Hope to see everyone at Blocktoberfest. Bring plenty of cash for all of your yummies and of course bring a friend to share them with!

08/26/2023

08/22/2023

We have a public event coming up on Saturday. Come see the animals from 1:30-3:30 at the Landings at Tiffany Springs .

08/12/2023

It was a long day. I was up at 3:30 to feed early so we could go to the Iowa state fair and be there when they open. It is the same distance as driving to Hutchinson. The sheep shearing contest was interesting.

When I got back, Buttercup had given birth to a tiny single girl. She is the.last scheduled to give birth this year unless Billie has pulled her shenanigans again. I try to feed babies from a bottle so I can see the milk go into them. It is hard to judge how much they are getting when they drink from the udder.

Maggie's boy let me know that his food was late.