°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ’s farm hosts over a thousand visitors for Open Farm Sunday
The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ) hosted over 1,000 visitors on Sunday at Boltons Park Farm for LEAF Open Farm Sunday, where its students get hands-on farm experience.
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The visitors came from the local community as well as further afield to find out about the farm, which is located near Potters Bar in Hertfordshire along with the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ’s Hawkshead Campus.
Open Farm Sunday is a free annual event that showcases the inner-workings of a modern dairy and sheep farm. Visitors were able to learn about all of the activities on the working farm, including the onsite teaching °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ students receive within their degree programmes.
Visitors heard about the calving and milking cycle of the cows and got to try their hand at milking, using a life-size model of a cow. They found out about animal blood donation and how blood specimens are taken to aid diagnoses. They also learned how the sheep flock is managed, got to see a foot trimming demonstration on our dairy cows and were shown how to spin wool.
A number of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ experts in veterinary medicine and science were present to meet with the visitors and explain how cutting-edge research enables good animal welfare and health. Our student ambassadors were at hand to talk about all aspects of life as a student at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ.
There was a bake sale to raise money for the Animal Care Trust – the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ’s registered charity – and visitors were able find out about °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ’s exciting new bee keeping and honey production project.
There were visitors of all ages, who were able to see some of the farm’s sheep, cows and chickens. A calf born on the day was named after the youngest visitor – a baby called Ophelia.
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