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Last Chance For Sheep Racing At Odds Farm Park

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Sheep Racing At Odds Farm Park

Sheep Racing At Odds Farm Park

Families looking for a great day out this October should look no further than children’s farm, Odds Farm Park!  And, taking place daily until the end of the month, it’s their last chance to enjoy the ever popular Sheep Racing!

With a specially built mini race track with jumps and bends, eager sheep with miniature jockeys, it is an event not to miss at family day out favourite, Odds Farm Park.  Plus, children on a day out can guess the winning sheep and take home a medal!  

Elsewhere at this top farm park, there’s stacks more to do on a family day out. With plenty more furry friends to meet and a jam packed Animal Activity and Demonstration Programme, what will you do first?

Odds Farm Park is an award winning children’s farm providing an ideal family day out and is easily reached from North London, West London, London and Buckinghamshire. To visit the family days out website, visit www.oddsfarm.co.uk

All Change For Indoor Fun At Odds Farm Park

Friday, October 7th, 2011

New Indoor Playbarn Coming To Odds Farm Park

New Indoor Playbarn Coming To Odds Farm Park

With building work for the brand new Giant Playbarn now well underway at Odds Farm Park, visitors to the popular children’s attraction can be assured that, although in different locations, there is still plenty of play to participate in!

The Bale Climb, ever popular with children on a day out, has been moved to the Undercover Animal Barns and the huge, super-fun Astra slide has been relocated adjacent to the Tea Room. 

Opening this winter, the new Giant Playbarn will be jam packed with Indoor Fun!  Nearly 38,000 sq ft in size, children on a day out will be able to whoosh down fast slides, scramble through nets & tunnels and lots more! Plus, with special under 3’s and 5’s areas, there will be something for all ages!

Combined with numerous daily Animal Activities and Demonstrations, plenty of baby animals, as well as Tractor and Trailer rides, for fun there’s no better place to visit than Odds Farm Park.

Family day out favourite, Odds Farm Park is easily reached from Beaconsfield, Amersham, Chesham, Gerrards Cross, High Wycombe, Great Missenden and Wendover. For more information, directions and prices visit the family days out website www.oddsfarm.co.uk

Preparations For Spring Lambing Underway At Odds Farm Park

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Russell The Jacob Ram At Odds Farm Park

Russell The Jacob Ram At Odds Farm Park

Preparations are well underway for spring lambing at children’s farm, Odds Farm Park!  Russell, a very handsome Jacob ram, has recently been sharing a pen with the Jacob ewes in the Undercover Animal Barns. 

Visitors on a day out will be able to recognise Russell by his curly horns and beautiful black and white coat.  However, Russell is not the only ram to have gone in with the ewes – one of the farm’s Whitefaced Woodland rams has been in too! 

Ewes are pregnant for five months and so visitors to the family day out favourite can look forward to meeting plenty of cute new arrivals in the Spring.

Award winning kid’s farm Odds Farm Park provides a fantastic day out for all the family and is easily reached from West London, London, Berkshire, North London, Buckinghamshire and Oxford. It is very close to Maidenhead, Marlow, Uxbridge and Beaconsfield. For more information, directions and prices visit the family days out website www.oddsfarm.co.uk

Educational Fun At Odds Farm Park

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Educational Fun At Odds Farm Park

Educational Fun At Odds Farm Park

Did you know that family day out favourite, Odds Farm Park were the first Children’s Farm to offer a designated Hands-On Animal Area; giving schools on a day out the choice to get really close to the animals or to simply bypass the hands-on zone?

 

 

 

The “Hands on Area” is open all day long and permanently manned by Farmers to help children on a day out get the most from their time with the animals.  And with plenty of extra hand-washing facilities, schools can be assured that their health and safety is of the utmost importance to Odds Farm Park.

 

Combined with numerous daily Animal Activities and Demonstrations, plenty of baby animals, as well as Tractor and Trailer rides, for education and fun there’s no better place to visit than Odds Farm Park.

 

Family day out favourite, Odds Farm Park is easily reached from Beaconsfield, Amersham, Chesham, Gerrards Cross, High Wycombe, Great Missenden and Wendover. For more information, directions and prices visit the family days out website www.oddsfarm.co.uk

New Piglets Born At Odds Farm Park

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Bramble And Piglets At Odds Farm Park

Bramble And Piglets At Odds Farm Park

It’s Piglets galore at family day out favourite, Odds Farm Park!  A litter of cheeky piglets were born on 4 August to second time mum Bramble, a Middle White sow and dad Arthur, a Gloucestershire Old Spot boar. 

 

 

 

Visitors on a day out can meet Bramble and her new arrivals now in the pig paddocks, next to the Go Karts.

In addition, just a few days ago, some lucky visitors on a day out to the children’s farm watched as even more piglets were born to Snoopy, a Saddleback sow!

Plus, children on a day out can also enjoy the Outdoor Adventure Play Areas, meet more furry friends in the paddocks and undercover Animal Barns, solve the Maize Maze, ride Go Karts and more.

 

Award winning kid’s farm Odds Farm Park provides a fantastic day out for all the family and is easily reached from West London, London, Berkshire, North London, Buckinghamshire and Oxford. It is very close to Maidenhead, Marlow, Uxbridge and Beaconsfield. For more information, directions and prices visit the family days out website www.oddsfarm.co.uk

New Additions To The Menu At Odds Farm Park!

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Tea Room At Odds Farm Park

Tea Room At Odds Farm Park

Delicious!  With the recent addition of several new dishes on Odds Farm Park’s Tea Room menu - from delicious omelettes to scrumptious meatballs in tomato sauce with pasta, to mouthwatering veggie burgers and tempting Ham, Egg and Chips - there’s now even more to choose from!Also on offer at the family day out venue are all the usual favourites from hot bacon baps, burgers and chips and various jacket potatoes to a wide selection of teas and coffees.  Plus, just for little ones on a day out, there is a special children’s ‘hot’ menu or pick and mix lunch boxes to choose from.

A microwave facility for warming baby bottles is provided as well as lots of high chairs and table activities for the kids.  Odds Farm Park also sells a range of baby food for those families staying longer on their day out than anticipated!

Elsewhere at this top farm park, there’s stacks more to do on a family day out. With plenty of furry friends to meet, hours of Outdoor Play and the Indoor Playbarn, complete with Astra Slide, Ride-on Toys and the Bale Climb, what will you do first?

Odds Farm Park is an award winning children’s farm providing an ideal family day out and is easily reached from North London, West London, London and Buckinghamshire. To visit the family days out website, visit www.oddsfarm.co.uk

Charity Mascot Race At Odds Farm Park

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Mascot Race at Odds Farm

Mascot Race At Odds Farm Park

On Your Marks, Get Set….Go!  On Tuesday 2 August at 1pm families on a day out will love to watch Odds Farm Park Mascot, Rodney Pig, who will be joined by 6 of his mascot rivals, race for charity!

Taking place on the sheep racing track at the children’s farm, not only will the event be hugely entertaining, but will raise money for Thomas Ball Children’s Cancer Trust. 
As well as Rodney Pig, competitors include last year’s winner, Chip the Bear (Wycombe Heights Golf Club); 6ft giant wasp, Sting (London Wasps), cute and cuddly Tiger (RAF Benson); cheeky bear Bearemy and his friend Pawlette the Rabbit (Build a Bear Workshop);  and lovable Shaggy (Mead Open Farm).  If families on a day out guess the winning mascot families they could win a prize! 

Plus, families on a day out should not miss the opportunity to meet the mascots at 12.30pm just before the race starts!

Odds Farm Park is an award winning children’s farm providing an ideal family day out and is easily reached from North London, West London, London and Buckinghamshire. To visit the family days out website, visit www.oddsfarm.co.uk

Summer Fun At Odds Farm Park

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Odds Farm Park Mascot, Rodney Pig, Explores The Maize Maze!

Odds Farm Park Mascot, Rodney Pig, Explores The Maize Maze!

There’s so much summer fun at family day out favourite Odds Farm Park!  Open from 23 July, children on a day out with the family can try to find their way around the fantastic NEW Maize Maze!  It’s guaranteed to be great fun for all ages! 

Plus, with a specially built mini race track with jumps and bends, eager sheep with miniature jockeys, children visiting this children’s farm will love to watch the Sheep Racing!  If you guess the winning sheep you will take home a medal!  

Elsewhere at Odds Farm Park, you can expect more exciting summer activities; board Tractor and Trailer Rides, race Go Karts; challenge your friends to a game of Crazy Golf; and meet furry friends close up in the Designated Animal Feeding Area.   Combined with a jam-packed Animal Activity and Demonstration Programme, there’s so much to do!  

Family day out favourite, Odds Farm Park is easily reached from Beaconsfield, Amersham, Chesham, Gerrards Cross, High Wycombe, Great Missenden and Wendover. For more information, directions and prices visit the family days out website www.oddsfarm.co.uk

Cute Baby Calves Born At Odds Farm Park

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Toast And Bonnie At Odds Farm Park

Toast And Bounty At Odds Farm Park

The farm staff at popular children’s farm Odds Farm Park are keeping extra busy with the recent arrival of two new calves! 

Both sharing the same father, a visiting British White bull called Prospero, but not the same mothers, the calves have been named Bounty and Brutus.  Bounty was born to mother Toast, a beautiful Belted Galloway cow and is therefore a cross breed.  Brutus is pure bred as his mother, Twilight, is also a British White cow. 

The new additions and their mothers are currently in the Dipple Field and can be seen by families on a day out when taking a fun Tractor and Trailer ride around the farm.

Elsewhere at this top farm park, there’s stacks more to do on a family day out. With plenty more furry friends to meet, hours of Outdoor Play and the Indoor Playbarn, complete with Astra Slide, Ride-on Toys and the Bale Climb, what will you do first?

Family day out favourite, Odds Farm Park is easily reached from Beaconsfield, Amersham, Chesham, Gerrards Cross, High Wycombe, Great Missenden and Wendover. For more information, directions and prices visit the family days out website www.oddsfarm.co.uk

When Harry Met Annie!

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Cheeky Harry The Golden Guernsey Goat

Cheeky Harry The Golden Guernsey Goat

Visitors to family day out favourite, Odds Farm Park, will be in for a surprise when they visit! 

Following an accidental mating in the spring between cheeky Harry, a Golden Guernsey billy goat, and adorable Annie, a Bagot nanny goat, an extremely cute kid goat called Benji was recently born! 

The Rare Breed Survival Trust classes Bagot goats as “Vulnerable” and Golden Guernsey goats as “Minority”.  At this children’s farm, both individual breeds are part of active breeding programs and normally pure bred to ensure the kids have healthy blood lines.  

Annie The Bagot Goat With Cute Kid Benji

Annie The Bagot Goat With Cute Kid Benji

The accidental mating between Harry and Annie was a rare occurrence when Harry escaped one evening and, as visitors on a day out will discover, the new arrival looks nothing like his mother but just like his father!

Odds Farm Park is an award winning children’s farm providing an ideal family day out and is easily reached from North London, West London, London and Buckinghamshire. To visit the family days out website, visit www.oddsfarm.co.uk