Animal House or Farm or Ranch

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This is Spring Break week for Fletcher. We went with some friends to one of those drive through animal places where they could feed the animals. We heard the wagon ride was more fun than driving your own car.

This is hands down the best video I've seen in a very long time. I need to find out what kind of perfume Teresa wears because clearly this bull seemed very interested in her!


Tucker, Luke and Fletcher getting ready for the wagon ride.
Teresa and Tucker.

Rachel and Luke. The pollen around here is terrible and this place was pretty dusty. Poor Luke has had a runny nose for a few days now. He wanted NOTHING to do with feeding the animals. He enjoyed watching, but didn't want to try to feed any of them. We sat in the middle of the wagon so the animals couldn't get to us.

Fletcher's hands were a big slobbery mess, but he had fun feeding the animals. We went in the morning and they were hungry so they all came up to the wagon for food.

We weren't allowed to feed the zebra because they bite!

Luke enjoying the scenery. He would call out, "You like dat food, animals?"

Hanging out.

Giraffe!

White rhino - didn't feed him either. I'm not so sure about the "white" part.

Mama yak with her baby yak. Our wagon driver told us late May is another good time to visit because alot of animals have their babies at that time.

This cow had no top teeth. Actually, cows don't have top teeth. I did not know that. The way each animal was fed depended on what kind of animal it was. Birds like the emus had to eat directly out of the bucket so they didn't peck anyone. Animals like the llamas and deer could be fed with feed in a flat hand. But the cows and bulls had to be fed by holding the feed up and dropping it in their mouths.

Pretty peacock. Loud, screechy peacock.

Lemurs with their babies.

Hard to tell, but these are camels - technically dromedaries. We didn't get to feed them, but we did see them a little closer as we drove out of the ranch.