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Thursday, 07 May 2009 |
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A group of children enjoy the baby ducklings at last year’s Baby Animal Day sponsored by Rich Lane farmers Manu and Sterling Hatch from Our Family Farm. This year’s event will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Eastern Idaho State Fairgrounds.
By EMILY HONE
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BLACKFOOT — The fun continues at the Eastern Idaho State Fairgrounds this Saturday as Rich Lane farmers Manu and Sterling Hatch from Our Family Farm present their 6th annual Baby Animal Day.
Manu Hatch said it's an opportunity for parents to bring their children out to see and learn about live chicks, ducklings, piglets, calves, bunnies, lambs, goat kids, a miniature horse with a foal, and new this year, two baby Alpacas.
The day will be educational as well as entertaining, Hatch said, as Bob King from New Haven, Utah, again demonstrates how to shear sheep with a pair of old fashioned hand shears, and a spinning and weaving demonstration will be conducted right next door to show how the wool is made into material.
King's wife, Jenny, will have show lambs for sale if there are any 4-H members who haven't yet got theirs for this year, and the Kings will also bring along two mother Alpacas with babies.
Cox's Honey from Shelley will be on hand with an observation beehive filled with live bees to show how honey is made, and there will be a dairy station with a wooden cow where the young people can try their hand at milking.
If they can get it reassembled in time, Manu said, the Hatches will have a hand cranked cream separator to show how milk and cream were separated in the pre-electricity days.
Just for fun there will be a play area for the smaller children with a hay bale maze and kiddie pools filled with corn, and free rides on a horse drawn wagon.
A few crafters will be selling their wares for those who need to pick up a last minute Mother's Day gift, Manu said, and there will be a station where, for a small charge, kids can make their own Mother's Day cards.
A food vendor selling hotdogs and hamburgers will be available for those who work up an appetite with all of the looking and playing.
"Baby Animal Day has attracted a lot of families in the past because it's fun as well as educational," Manu said. "If it rains, we'll just move everything into the Livestock Pavilion."
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 May 2009 )
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