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Farmer Brown's Farm | Gardens

Farmer Brown's Farm

Fairytale Town’s family of farm animals are out in their pens when the park opens. In the afternoon, animal feedings usually begin between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. and are fun to watch. After the animals are fed, they are put to bed for the day. They are also often brought out on the lawn by our animal keeper during the day so children can see them up close.

You can also meet our animals on a Barnyard Buddies tour, one of the fun field trips Fairytale Town offers.

Peter Rabbit and his Sisters

Having successfully evaded Mr. McGregor, Peter, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail live in splendor at Fairytale Town. Beatrix Potter’s beloved tale of a misbehaving boy rabbit and his good little sisters has a permanent home next to the Children’s Theater. These furry friends are sometimes seen accompanying storytellers on the lawns of the park.

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Three Nigerian Dwarf goats, a rare breed, bring this tale of bravery and family solidarity to life. They live near Cinderella’s Coach, and have a completely safe bridge to climb on all day long. You can also measure your own height against a giant ruler that shows how high some goats can jump. If you look carefully around their pen, you might even catch a glimpse of the troll!

Three Little Pigs

The brick house that withstood the wolf's huffing and puffing is now home to three Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs. Pigs are one of the most intelligent animals, as the fairytale about them suggests. You can watch the pigs enjoy a cool bath in their own little pool during the summer months and get a close up look at these interesting creatures.

Eeyore the Donkey

Eeyore is the melancholy character from Ernest H. Shepard’s classic tales about Winnie the Pooh. Our Eeyore is a miniature Sicilian donkey who often surprises guests with his loud braying. He lives next to Moo-Lawn the cow in Farmer Brown’s Barn Corral.

The Cow That Jumped Over the Moon

Moo-Lawn, an Irish Dexter cow resides in Farmer Brown's Barn next door to Eeyore the donkey.

Dexters are native to southern Ireland, and are one of the world's smallest bovines. Gentle, hardy and easy to handle, there are two versions of the Dexter: short-legged and long-legged. Moo-Lawn is short-legged, which makes her very approachable for small park guests. Some days Moo-Lawn comes out of her pen for animal introductions.

Mary's Sheep

Two very different sheep live in the schoolhouse where Mary brought her lamb one day, based on the classic nursery rhyme. At this set, children learn that sheep provide us with lanolin and wool by examining the differences between our fluffy white wool Cheviot breed sheep and a wiry haired Barbados Blackbelly.

Our sheep are sheared once a year and their thick wool is cleaned and spun into yarn. The oily coating you can feel when you pet the sheep is lanolin, a moisturizing oil often used in hand lotions and soaps.

Sheep used to have hair that they shed rather than wool, and have been bred to grow very thick, woolly coats. Our Barbados Blackbelly sheep has a springy coat that has some wool and some hair. Our Cheviot sheep is very fluffy and woolly as the result of hundreds of years of breeding to develop a very woolly coat.

Read the nursery rhyme!

Little Red Hen House

This building is home to a family of chickens hatched at Farmer Brown’s Barn. Incubating eggs are hatched throughout the year at Fairytale Town. The eggs are from our own family of Fairytale Town chickens, which are a variety of breeds. Auracana chickens’ ancestors hail from Northern Chile, where the Arauca Indians first began raising the birds for their bright blue eggs.

If you listen carefully, sometimes you can hear "Big Red", the Fairytale Town Rooster, crowing a big howdy to children playing in the park. The chickens you see with him are a variety of breeds. There are over 200 breeds of chickens divided into 3 groups: meat, eggs and ornamental. Right now we have Rhode Island Reds, Golden Seabright, Light Brahma, Partridge Cochin and others. See how many you can identify at Fairytale Town on your next visit!