Farm Field Trip!

 We got to go on an end-of-the-year field trip to a little farm! This was still during school so Peanut and Boo opted to stay home and finish their work. 

 My friend A set up the tour and we all met there. It was actually in the city but they had one acre and had every foot of the place well utilized. Besides animals and a huge garden they had bees!

 

 

The farmer explained the process of getting honey.

 

 

And he even let them try some of the honey straight out of the honeycomb! 

 

 

Then they went through all their animals and gave us some cool facts about them. They had ducks and geese.

 

 

And lots of chickens.

 

They even had a pony which each child got to take a turn riding.

 

 

The girls loved it!

 

 

I think this was Lou's first time getting to ride a pony!

 

 

She did great! 

 

 

One interesting thing about the pony was that apparently he had a disease similar to diabetes and the farmer said that grass is like candy to a horse! It metabolizes into a sugar so they rarely let him have any. Consequently any time they stopped for more than a second he was gobbling up as much grass as he could!

 

They had lots of bunnies!

 

 

Fun fact: bunnies have 350 degree vision! The only place they can't see is directly between their eyes! This helps them see predators in time to get away.

 

 

They were super soft and pretty tame.

 

 

But I think the goats were the girls' favorite. They were SO friendly!

 

 

They just stood there and let all the kids pick them up as much as they wanted.

 

 

So happy!

 

 

We just had to watch out because they were nibbling on all the kids clothes and even their hair! We also learned that goats have 340 degree vision with their rectangular pupils.

 

 

They had some sweet baby chicks!

 

 

Then they had a "kid" race. The farmer asked the kids if they thought a goat could outrun them. They all said, "NO!" and were so surprised when the baby goat won the race! :)

 

Then the goat went down the line hopping on the kid's backs. Haha.

 

 

The last thing they got to do was feed the goats sunflower seeds which apparently they love! So did the chickens who swooped in to pick up any that got dropped.

 

 

What a fun field trip!