We spent Sunday afternoon with Jumpy the Turkey, Carlton the pot-bellied pig, a three-day-old calf, chickens, Jersey cows and lots of other farm animals at the open house at Bailey's Dairy in Pocopson. It was so much fun saying "hi" to the animals and watching the little kids interact with them. One toddler was fascinated by a pygmy goat and kept following him around; the goat ignored him and just kept munching grass.
There was a guess-the-pumpkin's-weight contest. My companion tried to lift the enormous vegetable and estimated it was about the weight of two-and-a-half economy-size bags of dog food. We wrote down 105 on the contest form; it turned out to be 139 lbs.
The winning name in the name-the-calf contest was "Magic" (it was supposed to be an "M" name because the calf's Mom is "Mistletoe").
There were ice-cream sundaes for sale, with the same chocolate syrup used in Baily's wonderful chocolate milk. And if farm animals and ice cream were enough, there was even a TV set up outside so hard-core NFL fans could watch the Eagles game.
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