Cotswold Farm Park

Over the Easter holidays I visited and camped at Adam Henson’s Cotswold Farm Park. The farm park focuses on protecting rare breeds such as the Hebridian sheep. The Hebridean sheep can regularly grow four horns, it looks quite unusual and I certainly wouldn’t want to be chased by one!

At the farm park you can hold and pet a variety of small animal such as guinea pigs, rabbits and chicks - one rabbit which was not so small was a British Lop rabbit called Hetty, she was the second largest rabbit at the farm. Poor Hetty had a torn ear, the staff at the farm had thought Hetty might be lonely so had introduced her to an even larger rabbit in the hope that they would be good companions, unfortunately the larger rabbit didn't want a friend and had bitten Hetty and damaged her very large ear.

One of my favourite animals at the farm was a Frizzle bantam, its feathers were quite scruffy, sticking out iall directions, a bit like my hair! Frizzle bantams are a gentle breed of chicken which were virtually extinct until a breeding programme was set up to increase it's numbers, they are now considered a rare breed.

As we were leaving the farm we saw the staff letting the cows, sheep and goats into a large field for the night. we were able to be really close to the Highland cattle, it was amazing to see how huge they were yet they appear so gentle.