Attendees are encouraged to brush, pat and interact with Farmer Darryl’s animals as long as they stay respectful.
Young and old will love the furry, woolly and feathery friends at Farmer Darryl’s Mobile Animal Farm.
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As a Seymour Alternative Farming Expo veteran, Darryl Sheridan, more commonly known as Farmer Darryl, is back for his 14th year, and he’s bringing his best animals.
His favourite part of the expo is the reaction from the attendees, but he also said it was a great social event.
“We have some calves, a collection of lambs and sheep, some goats and their kids, chickens, ducks in a pond, rabbits, and we’ve got some fantail pigeons that sit up on the roof of our farm houses,” Farmer Darryl said.
“We have two deer who have been travelling around the countryside with us for quite some time, and they’re always popular, a definite hit.”
For almost three decades he has been bringing his farmyard friends from different events, but the animals decide when they want to be driven around.
“I've been doing it for 26 years,” he said.
“The animals stick in their little groups and I call them up on the morning, and they pretty much decide who would like to come, and then they're jumping into the trailers.
“They’ve all got their certain spots, and then we head off.”
As well as providing a close and personal experience with his animals, he will also have story times throughout the day, singalongs and educational sessions.
Farmer Darryl will have about 10 eggs from different birds and will work with the attendees to figure out which eggs come from which bird.
With his years of experience, he has the answer for all farmyard questions.
“It's nice to be able to teach people if they're thinking of getting different sorts of animals on the farm or pets, and I like to be able to tell them what they need to do,” Farmer Darryl said.
Farmer Darryl with one of his goats at a previous Seymour expo.
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