August 12th, 2010
Mum and baby
On the morning of Friday 6th August the suitably named ‘Donkey Donkey’ blessed us with a baby male foal. ‘Donkey Donkey’ is the sister of ‘Emma’ the donkey, who earlier this year had a female foal named ‘Dolly’ by Katie McKeown who won one of our many Facebook competitions March 19th 2010 .
Mother and baby are both doing very well and have been moved from the field with the rest of the donkeys, allowing them to spend some time together and giving our visitors a chance to get a closer look.
WIN A FREE SEASON TICKET ON FACEBOOK
Once again ‘Old MacDonald’ is giving you the chance to WIN a FREE SEASON TICKET to the Farm. Enter our new Facebook naming competition by logging on to our Facebook page and join in the fun!!!
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August 5th, 2010
Unfortunately due to the nature of the Fire Service & NHS Ambulance Service we have just been informed on this occasion that they will not be able to bring their vehicles and appliances. However you will still be able to meet members of these vital services who will be able to talk about what they do and will have various activities for you to join in.
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June 7th, 2010
During our morning rounds yesterday , Sunday 6th June, at Old MacDonalds Petting Farm we found a new baby girl!!
A baby Alpaca is known as a Cria, she was born very early Sunday morning, alpacas are known for giving birth early in the morning. Our new baby girl is very little and jet black, our keepers found her with mum on their morning feeds, both mum and baby are doing very well and are already out frolicking in their paddock.
Facebook Competition..
We will be running another facebook competition to name our baby girl so log on and join in to have a chance of winning an annual season ticket!
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May 27th, 2010
new arrivals at the farm
The Boys are in town!
Old MacDonald’s award winning petting farm in Essex had the great fortune of taking on 5 male llamas one Thursday evening on the 13th May. “The boys” are called Hugo, Elliot, Tarzan, Motzart and Manuel. Manuel is the leader of the pack and one of the largest. They are now happy residents in Old MacDonald’s petting farm’s central paddock. You can see in our picture they are using the hill as their look out point.
The previous owners contacted Old MacDonald’s petting farm about the possibility of re-homing them as they are moving abroad and would no longer be able to keep them.
Old MacDonald is really pleased to see the new arrivals the the farm are settling in really well.
Old MacDonald was also lucky enough to have a reporter from the Brentwood Gazzette visit the Essex petting farm to write a feature on the llamas. You can read this article which appeared in the Wednesday 26th May edition of the Gazzette.
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April 8th, 2010
Eloise the Alpaca, one of our new additions at our petting farm in Brentwood, Essex.
This Easter holiday we had two new additions to Old Macdonalds Petting Farm… GiGi and Eloise,
our new Alpacas! And on top of that, Eloise is also pregnant, so watch this space for another new arrival annoucement!
They are currently enjoying the sunshine down on our farm in the heart of the Essex Countryside.
For a fun family day out over the school holidays visit our farm and feed our spring babies,
animal food is available from our gift shop.
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