Odds Farm Blog

Cow Milking At Odds Farm Park

It’s all change at children’s farm, Odds Farm Park, with the relocation of the daily Cow Milking demonstrations!

As work on the brand new Giant Playbarn gets underway, the Cow Milking demonstration has moved from the old Demonstration Barn to the Undercover Animal Barns.  Still offering the same experience as previously for visitors on a day out, children can watch the cows being milked using modern farming methods and learn where milk really comes from! 

Every day, whatever the weather, there are a number of animal based activities for visitors to enjoy which are supervised by the livestock staff. The sessions have all been developed in-house to make them fun, educational, and hands-on wherever possible to help families on a day out get the most out of their visit.

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

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

Barnaby The Anglo Nubian Billy Goat

A real treat awaits visitors on a day out to children’s farm, Odds Farm Park, as staff at the popular visitor attraction recently welcomed the arrival of Anglo Nubian billy goat, Barnaby!

Barnaby has recently relocated to Odds Farm Park from Cornwall and is settling in well in one of the paddocks, making friends with all the other billy goats!  Very friendly and extremely handsome, children on a day out will love to meet him.

The Anglo Nubian goat was created in the UK at the end of the Nineteenth Century.  The breed was developed by crossing goats in England with those arriving on Ocean Liners from the East.  Anglo Nubian goats are renowned for creating the best tasting and highest quality goat’s milk. 

On a day out to Odds Farm Park, children can identify the Anglo Nubian goats by their height (they are one of the tallest breeds of goat) and their long drooping ears.

Elsewhere at Odds Farm Park, families on a day out can meet even more furry friends and even get close up to them in the Designated Animal Feeding Area.   Combined with a jam-packed Animal Activity and Demonstration Programme, there’s so much to do! 

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

New Indoor Play Comes To Odds Farm

NEW! This winter, family day out favourite, Odds Farm will be opening a Giant Playbarn 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 more! Plus, with special under 3’s and 5’s areas, there will be something for all ages!

Families looking for a fun day out combining animals, outdoor and indoor play should join the Odds Farm Park Facebook Page or visit the Website to keep up with the news! 

Plus, children on a day out can also enjoy the Outdoor Adventure Play Areas, meet plenty of furry friends, board the Tractor and Trailer for a fun ride around the farm 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 Amersham, Chesham, 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

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

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

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

Tiny And Beatrix At Odds Farm Park

It’s a happy ending for Tiny, a British White cow from Odds Farm Park who has recently fostered Beatrix a cute and friendly Jersey calf!  To look at them, Tiny and Beatrix make a very unusual pairing but together they have settled extremely well and are very happy.

It is easy to see the difference between a British White cow and a Jersey cow.  Children on a day out can identify British White Cows by their white hair (although unusually they have black skin underneath). They can identify Jersey Cows by their light brown silky coat and beautiful dark eyes.

Tiny and Beatrix are currently in a field on their own to be seen by visitors on a day out but will soon move to the Dipple Field - where the Tractor and Trailer ride goes - with the rest of the British White herd.

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

Celestia The Exmoor Pony At Odds Farm Park

Staff at family day out favourite recently welcomed the arrival of a new Exmoor Pony named Celestia.

Visitors to the family day out favourite will love to meet 1 year old Celestia, who came to Odds Farm from an Exmoor breeder in Hertfordshire.  Visitors on a day out will see that Celestia is a very pretty pony and very friendly too! She is now living with the farm’s Shetland ponies in the paddocks and can be seen by visitors on a day out.

The Exmoor pony has inhabited the Exmoor moorland since ancient times and is the oldest British pony.  Exmoor is situated in the south west of Britain and is an area of high moorland providing a varied diet of moor grasses, rushes, heather and gorse.

Exmoor ponies are a rare breed with less than 1000 worldwide and are “endangered” on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust list. There are just 300 breeding mares producing 130 foals annually, 150 of the mares are still living free on Exmoor and the remainder throughout Britain. 

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