Linvilla Orchards
pamelamyers | May 9, 2011
Mark and I took Sam to Linvilla Orchards this weekend. We wanted to buy a pie for Mother’s Day dinner so it seemed like a good opportunity to get Sam outside in the air. Also, there are a huge number of animals there for her to visit and we knew she’d love that. When we got there, the first thing Mark did was bring her over to see the deer. There are machines all over full of various food you can buy for 25 cents so you can feed most of the animals and there was food for the deer. The deer are really tame, obviously, and are so used to humans that they come right up to the fence. I fed the deer right from my hand while Sam watched. As you can imagine, she was seriously amused!
We moved on to the cages with what seemed like hundreds of chickens and roosters as well as turkeys and what Mark and I think are probably pheasants but we aren’t really sure. I never saw so many types of farm birds before. In some of the fenced areas you could even see eggs! Sam loved the roosters cock-a-doodle-dooing over and over again. We took her over to the pond to see the ducks and then to see the goats and I swear, she was so excited she was just running around from one thing to the next. She didn’t know what animals to look at first. Mark and I fed the ducks but surprisingly, she was more amused by feeding the chickens! She quickly figured out that it was the corn that the chickens wanted and every little piece of corn that she found on the ground that someone dropped she’d pick up and try to feed the chickens. Mark and I wouldn’t let her little fingers too close to the fences though and we just kind of threw it in for them to eat.
We also saw goats, a horse, a pig, some sheep, a very noisy mooing cow, and a few peacocks who were kind enough to open their feathers up for all of us to see.
After all the animals, we took Sam into the little playground. She was too little for all the slides and climbing things, but I think she had fun anyway. She kept seeing the little train ride go by and I think she was pretty interested. We thought about taking her on it, but we really didn’t have a lot of time so we decided to save it for next time.
I think one of the cutest moments was inside where incubators were set up full of not only eggs but baby chicks! They were so cute and furry. I tried to explain to Sam that they were baby chickens and I don’t know if she completely understood, but she did say, “baby”, so maybe she did. Mark and a I are so glad Sam loves animals as much as we do. We can’t wait to take her back again to let her ride the train, to pick her own fruit, and to do all the fun things Linvilla has to offer!
