Oh how they grow!

Granddaughter Aaliyah and I spent time visiting with the ponies at the farm today. It dawned on me how much Storm (born March 30th 2009) and Princes (born May 19th 2009) had GROWN! Thought you'd enjoy seeing for yourself.

Storm THEN...Farmer Pat had to kneel to be close to him.

Storm NOW...he's as tall as Aaliyah!



THEN...Princes next to her mom, Blondie...NOW she's as tall as her mom!

Princess was all legs when she was born. Now she's all mischief.

Otis

Otis the Boar is happy and "tickled pink" to spend the winter in the sow barn where he's protected from the winter winds and he can snuggle into fresh straw and keep toasty warm.

Happy Holidays from Mulberry Lane Farm

From Our Home to Yours

May your footsteps be guided by joy, peace and hope this holiday season and throughout the new year.

From the Family and Staff of Mulberry Lane Farm

Photos courtesy of Russ Raddatz

MLF presents Annabelle's Wish

Tour Guides, Nieces, Cousins, Guest of MLF and more enjoyed participating in the annual Appleton Downtown Christmas Parade. Please read the previous blog to understand why we all dressed up as lovable barnyard animals.

Do you recognize any of your tour guides? Farmer Cindy (cow), Farmer Barb (bunny), Farmer Ashley (barn mouse) and Farmer Jeanne (cow)


We had some Peacocks and kittens on the haywagon too.

Christmas Parade

We are excited to announce that Mulberry Lane Farm has been asked to participate in Wisconsin's biggest Christmas Parade! Last year's parade drew approximately 80,000 spectators to Downtown Appleton. Additionally, a television audience of over 100,000 views the parade live and during rebroadcasts on CBS 5, WFRV-TV and WJMN, Channel 3.

Parade entry description:
Mulberry Lane Petting Farm presents Annabelle’s Wish

Our unit is based on the classic children’s Christmas video “Annabelle’s Wish.” A lovable calf named Annabelle born on Christmas Eve and a friendly bunch of barnyard animals befriend Billy, a young boy who cannot talk. Legend has it that Santa gives voices to the animals for one day each year. Therefore, Christmas Day at the farm magically comes alive.

Mulberry Lane’s hay wagon (trimmed in white lights) pulled by the farm’s tractor will be filled with bales of hay with children and adults seated on them dressed as those friendly, talkative farm animals with “Billy” (Farmer Pat) at the helm. Everyone will be dressed as cows, pigs, ducks, horses and more!




Join us on Tuesday, Nov 24th. Parade begins at 6:20PM

End of Fall Season

Hard to believe the fall season has come to an end. Thanks to all that visited Mulberry Lane Farm in 2009. We enjoyed your company! Our farm animals look forward to your return visit next year. Keep an eye on our website for our 2010 schedule...in the meantime, by popular demand, we will continue to post items of interest throughout the winter on our blog.



















Since it is the end of the year we are looking to adapt out some of our lovable kittens. Please contact the farm if you are interested. We have a couple female tortoise colored kittens, 1 or 2 black kittens and several male and female tiger striped. All are very lovable and are litter trained. Please seriously consider two as they have always had many buddies to play with and cuddle with for naps.

One little, two little, three little piggies.

On average a sow will have 10 to 12 piglets. I guess that makes Scarlet above average! She had 14 piglets on Sunday September 20th.

Scarlet is a 4 year old Yorkshire. She was breed to a Hampshire boar.

Open 7 Days a Week thru 10/31/09

If you are like me, fall is your favorite time of year and there's no better place to enjoy it than outdoors in the country.

Come visit the new arrivals at the farm. Scarlet and her litter of 10+ piglets!, Shiny and Violet, our Heifer calves are only 7 and 8 days old, and Speckles our Doe had a nest of bunnies just this Tuesday!

So there is a lot to see and do at the farm along with visiting the Pumpkin Patch to pick your own FREE Pumpkin. The only hard part will be deciding which one to pick!

Caramel Apples

New this fall we are adding to are famously delicious sliced caramel apples, caramel apples on a stick. Whether you like them plain or with peanuts you'll love fresh caramel apples made with apples from Sprangers Orchard. Made fresh right at the farm.

Can you say yummy?

Did you know?

At MLF, "learning can be fun!"

Here are just two fun facts...
Did you know that chicks are born with an egg tooth? An egg tooth is a temporary tooth that projects from the beak used to break out of the egg. Within 12 to 24 hours after the chick hatches the egg tooth will dry and fall off.

You can see the mark on this little chick left after the egg tooth fell off.

Fact #2...
Only the male peafowl is called a peacock. The female is called a peahen. Here Farmer Aaliyah is holding a peachick. Together peacocks, peahens and peachicks are called peafowl. So next time you see a peafowl don't be quick to shout "there's a peacock!" You just may be looking at a peahen.

Oh well, I can't control myself. Here's another fun fact...Fact #3...The easiest way to tell between the peacock and the peahen is by their neck feathers. The India Blue peafowl, the peacock has a blue neck with the peahen having a green neck.

See how much fun that was! :)