Come and meet Charlie - friendly &
inquisitive.
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A little visitor watches a chick being
hatched in our hatchery. Chicks and Ducklings hatch for
about 4 mths over Spring and Summer.
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Brushtail Possum with baby in our produce
shed - this possum has a baby every year at Morvern.
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A very special guest Jacinta with little Gita when he was first
born. Gita needed to be bottle fed and was really tiny, but now is a
strong and fit Ram fathering his own lambs in the next 3-4 months.
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We breed heritage poultry, Welsh Harlquin
champion ducks - we have ducklings each Spring. We have just
been awarded the first second prize and the Champion at the
2010 Sydney Royal Easter Show. |
Happy chickens lay your breakfast eggs
- the girls usually co-operate! You can't get any fresher
than this!
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King parrots at the feeder
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| Lovely Crimson Rosellas, Major Mitchells,
Gang Gangs and Galahs keep up a colourful parade at our
cottages. |
Barry is a well mannered Kookaburra who
lives just outside Braedon cottage
Breaking
News : Barry has taken a wife,
Kookaburras mate for life!!!
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This is Domingo's full blood brother
T.J. and just like his brother, he loves carrots, slices of
bread, apples and attention.
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Emma with one of our chickens, the
chickens are probably the most popular with kids
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Ben loved all the farm animals - but
this particular hen was his favourite.
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Fudge will come up for carrots and a
cuddle.
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Little Gita stole our hearts and so has found a permanent home
here at Morvern, and as he has been bottle fed he is very social, if
you are patient and quiet he will come up for some hay or grass from
your hands
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Feed the Ponies and our Miniature Horse Fudge
The donkey is Sunny and he will come up straight away to see what
treats he might get.
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Domingo trots past Original Homestead- perhaps
he thinks some food is on offer? |
Sunny yet again wanting some attention,
he is friendly and always ready for a pat!
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Charlie and his two friends Shorty and
Fluffy Face. We have affectionately nicknamed them the Three
Amigos as they really are inseparable.
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Huge mobs are to be seen in The Southern
Highlands in our village -just a minutes drive away, also a lone kangaroo or Wallaby
often finds its way to Morvern Valley
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Lightning Jack - the most wonderful pony
in the world.
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This is Oscar he came to live at Morvern
Valley after doing preschool show-and-tells. He is a lovely
natured gentle alpaca and will come up to see who arrives.
He is firmly the boss of the younger Three Amigos.
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Fudge loves being brushed and cuddled by
young visitors especially if his nose is in a hay basket.
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We have rare white peacocks called
Bonnie and Clyde |
'Wool' is our latest Suffolk sheep addition
and is the wife to Gita our Ram.
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Ducks and Geese will eat out of your
hand. We specialize in quite a range of duck breeds
including Saxony, Indian Runners and Khaki Campbell. Each
cottage has its own coop with a specific breed.
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One of our Russian Snow geese having a snoooooze..... |
Each spring our Toulouse goose has goslings
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Little Baa Baa and Black Sheep were born
in September 09 at Morvern Valley. When first born they are
fully black and they keep close to their
mums. Slowly their body fleece is turning white like their
mum's.
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