Farming Fun Beside the Seaside!

There’s more animal magic than ever before in store for visitors to Blackpool Zoo this Easter as the award winning attraction completes the final stages of its huge new Children’s Farm.

An enormous barn has been constructed over the winter and will, along with extensive outdoor paddocks, be home to the zoo’s resident farm favourites and lots of new faces too.

Children will be able to get hands on with donkeys, sheep, goats, rabbits and guinea pigs in daily interactive sessions and educational talks.

One of the zoo’s most popular animals, Rudolf the Kune Kune pig, will also move into his purpose built home in the farm along with new additions including Zebus, Llamas and an adorable baby reindeer.

The miniature train line has been re-routed to start and finish at the barn and there’s also a specially designed play area with bark flooring, picnic bench seating and a climbing frame.

A mechanical cow will take pride of place so visitors young and old will be able to try their hand at milking.

Jude Rothwell, Marketing and PR Coordinator at Blackpool Zoo, said: “The Children’s Farm has been developed to give our visitors a whole new experience at the zoo.

“It is a natural progression of our very popular Children’s Zoo and everyone will be able to get closer than ever before to the animals.

“There will always be something to see and do inside and outside so, come rain or shine, it will certainly be a crowd pleaser.”

The Children’s Farm, which cost £500,000, is the latest in a long line of recent investment projects at Blackpool Zoo.

Earlier this year a complete restaurant overhaul, which cost £350,000, took place after the zoo identified the need for additional space and more food choice as a result of the huge increase in visitors in recent years.

Blackpool Zoo had record visitor numbers in 2010 following a string of momentous births, the completion of its Active Oceans arena, the launch of its Wallaby Walkabout and re-vamp of its Aardvark enclosure.

This year has got off to a fantastic start with the news that keepers at the zoo became the first UK team to successfully breed a Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra in the last nine years.

Jude adds: “With all the fantastic investments projects and exciting animal births and pregnancies we are certainly hoping to break last year’s record and look forward to welcoming visitors from around the world throughout 2011!”

Visitors can save up to 10 per cent by booking online at www.blackpoolzoo.org.uk.

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