MEET OUR ANIMALS

Here is a glimpse of some of the animals you will see during your visit at Belmont Farm

Check out our fun facts about the animals

🐐GOATS

  • Golden Guernsey Goats

  • Saanen Goats

  • Pygmy Goats

  • Anglo-Nubian Goat

  • Toggenburg Cross

  • Angora Goats

Goats have amazing climbing skills and can balance on some very steep, rocky surfaces!

Purchase animal feed from our reception to feed our hungry animals

A Red Dot - Can not be fed

🐏 SHEEP

  • Herdwick

  • Zwartble

  • Suffolk Mule

  • Charollais cross

  • Suffolk Cross

Sheep can recognise and remember up to 50 different sheep and human faces for years!

🐖 PIG 🔴

  • Gloucestershire Old Spots

Pigs are super clever and have an amazing sense of smell!

🐴 EQUINES

  • Shetland Pony

  • Cob Horse

  • Irish Donkeys

Ponies have thicker manes, tails and coats than most horses, helping them stay warm in cold and wet weather!

Horses can sleep standing up thanks to a special system in their legs called the stay apparatus, which allows them to relax their muscles without falling over!

Donkeys have incredibly large ears that help them hear other donkeys calling from up to 60 miles away in the right conditions!

🦙 CAMELIDS

  • Alpacas

Alpacas hum to communicate with each other! They make a gentle “mmm” sound when they're curious, happy or trying to keep in touch with their friends.

🦌 DEER

🐇SMALL MAMMALS

  • Champagne Ferrets

  • Netherland Dwarf Rabbits

  • Peruvian Guinea pigs

  • Abyssinian Guinea pigs

  • British Giant Rabbits

  • Gerbils

Ferrets have super-flexible spines, which allow them to twist and squeeze their long, wiggly bodies through surprisingly tiny gaps!

A rabbit's teeth never stop growing throughout its life!

Guinea pigs can make a special excited jump called “popcorning”!

🐓POULTRY 🔴

  • Lavender Pekin Chickens

  • Buff Orpington Chickens

  • Dutch Bantam

  • Plymouth Rock Chicken

  • Leghorn Chickens

  • Norfolk Black Turkey

  • Common Pheasant

  • Silver Pheasant

  • Golden Pheasant

  • Golden Yellow Pheasant

Chickens can recognise and remember lots of different faces!

A turkey's head can change colour depending on how it is feeling!

Male pheasants have a special ring of bare skin around their eyes, which is often bright red!

🦆WATERFOWL 🔴

  • Appleyard Ducks

  • Indian Runner Ducks

  • Saxony Duck

  • Rouen Duck

  • Shetland Duck

  • Aylesbury Ducks

Ducks have waterproof feathers thanks to a special oil they spread over their feathers when preening!

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