farm animals

Description

Watch this great new video with Horsham District Council's Head Countryside Warden Steve Delahunt giving us the lowdown on the animals you can find at Chesworth Farm in Horsham. The next event at Chesworth Farm is on Sunday 30 June (12 noon - 3pm) Chesworth Farm Studio, Horsham town centre (off Queensway) 'Meet the Farm Animals' Come and meet the animals at Chesworth Farm in Horsham! Friendly sheep, llamas and chickens are waiting to say Hello! Plus live music and a free kids' art lesson from Horsham Art Academy! Chesworth Farm, Chesworth Lane, Horsham, RH13 0AA FREE ENTRY The site is owned and managed by Horsham District Council. Produced June 2013 by Horsham District Council. Transcript: Right, here we have Poppy and Daisy, who are Texel sheep and they live on Chesworth Farm, with a variety of other animals. We have Rowena and Bridget the llamas, who might be... ooh, who might just be coming up behind me, can you see that okay? They might be coming down to have a look as well, they love a bit of publicity, don't you, you like a bit of the camera. They live on the farm as well, we also have grazing cattle, cows who come in the summer and autumn. We had Belted Galloways recently, which are lovely little black and white fluffy cows. And possibly, some other English Whites, which are a larger white cow coming this autumn. We organise our grazing of the 90 acres of wildflower meadow at Chesworth Farm with Sussex Wildlife Trust, and they provide some of the animals that come and graze here. The animals themselves, although as well as doing a very nice job of grazing, whoopsy, also attract a lot of visitors so we're actually looking at ways of bringing in more varied animals along to the farm to actually attract more visitors to come in to the farm, come and have a look around, maybe walk the dog or take the family on a cycle ride on our bridleways, and see some of the wildlife around as well. You might be able to see above me, we've got lots and lots of swifts, who are... oh my goodness... who are hunting on the wing at the moment over some of the wildflower meadows. Like I said, 90 acres of wild grassland, which attract a lot of different... some rare bird species, we have a barn owl that breeds on the site, Yellowhammer, and also Skylark, they nest on the ground of the meadows, and that's another endangered species that we have on the farm. Ends