11/26/2025
🌾💚 How Visits Work at M&B Farm & Hatchery Inc. — Please Read 💚🌾
We love sharing the farm with the community, and watching people fall in love with the animals is one of the most rewarding parts of everything we do. 🐐🐷🐮🐾
Because we don’t have outside staff and our farm is also our home, all visits are by appointment only.
M&B Farm & Hatchery Inc. is run solely by Mikey, Becky, and our son Ward, along with our incredible volunteers who help with daily farm work and animal care. We couldn’t have done this without them.
That said, farm tours and visitor access are handled directly by us to keep everyone safe and protect the animals’ routines.
🗓 How to schedule a visit:
Call, text, or send us a Facebook message letting us know the day and time(s) you’d like to come. We are very flexible and will always do our best to accommodate you.
📍 We live on the farm (about 150 ft from the gates), so visits are easier to schedule than in the past — but we still cannot allow walk-ins or unannounced drop-bys.
If we’re not with visitors, we’re feeding, watering, doing medical care, fixing something, or responding to rescue calls.
We are also a family — our kids have school, sports, practices, games, and we take the occasional family outing just like everyone else. Appointments enable us to balance rescue life and family life while still providing every visitor with a great experience.
📄 Visitor Forms:
Everyone 18 years and older must complete a Visitor Form if they have not done so in 2025.
To make things easier, the digital Visitor Form can be found here:
🔗 https://www.mbfarmhatchery.com/licensing-and-legal
⏳ With the new year approaching, all visitors — even those who signed in 2025 — will complete a new form starting January 1.
👶 Anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
🛠 Volunteers aged 16 and above may volunteer with a signed parent/guardian form. (Volunteer and visitor forms are two separate forms.)
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🐾 Returning Visitors, Past Owners & “Cuddle-Time Guests” 🐾
We love our regular visitors — especially the ones who come back every week to snuggle with their favorite animal. ❤️ Once you’ve had your first official tour (usually with Becky), you are welcome to return anytime by appointment to love on your farm favorites.
Most of you have met Ward — he’s 21, has autism, and is almost always on the farm. He’s a little shy at first, but once he knows you, he will talk your ear off about every single animal and their personalities. ❤️
If you arrive for a scheduled visit and Mikey or Becky is tied up, Ward can absolutely let returning visitors in and show you where to go.
For cuddle visits (like Big Moma time), you’re welcome to stay as long as you like. When you’re finished, just close the gate behind you — no supervision required.
Friends and neighbors dropping off treats — always welcome.
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🐶 Dog Kennel Area — Important Safety Rule
The dog kennel area, including the fenced-in play yard, is an insurance-restricted zone. For everyone’s safety and compliance:
👉 No one may enter the kennel area unless Mikey or Becky is present.
👉 Ward and volunteers are not allowed to take anyone into the kennel area.
👉 Restricted-access signs are posted at every entrance of the kennel area.
These signs are in place for liability, insurance, and the safety of both visitors and the dogs.
If your favorite dog is in the kennel area, please ask if Mikey or Becky will be available so we can take you in safely.
If the dog is out in the pasture (like Dixie), you are absolutely welcome to go inside and play.
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🔐 Safety & Liability
The farm is monitored by over 50 cameras for the safety of visitors, volunteers, and animals.
If none of us are on the property — or if someone in the house is sick — we cannot allow visitors that day. This is not because we don’t want visitors, but because we must follow insurance requirements.
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💚 Thank You 💚
Thank you for helping us maintain a safe farm environment, keep the animals comfortable, and protect our rescue status.
We love opening the farm to the community, watching bonds grow, and seeing the healing that happens here every day — we are beyond grateful to share it with all of you.
— M&B Farm & Hatchery Inc.
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