• milk a goat
  • bottle feed babies
  • gather eggs
  • holding chicks
  • harvest crops
  • visit with young farm animals
  • hike the pastures and woods
  • Enjoy the Hay Ride to the sheep meadow to pick a sheep to shear!

Families and small groups will delight in The Sunrock Farm Sheep Shearing Program during the month of April.

Experience a two hour hands-on guided tour. As part of your farm tour, climb aboard the hay wagon for a hayride out to the sheep meadow to pick a sheep to shear!
Farmer Susie sheers a sheep!

Tour - The entrance fee for a two hour family tour is $10.00 per person (infants under one are free).

 Sheep (along with goats) were one of the first species of animals domesticated about 10,000 years ago in a region we today call Iraq. This land in ancient times was called Mesopotamia which in Greek means “the land between the rivers”. The rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates, and this is the land in which farming was first practiced by people long ago.
Two farmers go for a spring-time walk with an ewe.

  The sheep were used for meat, for milk, for hides, and for their wool which in those days was gathered off the ground since the sheep then shed their wool naturally once a year. Thousands of years later, sheep which mutated into ones which did not naturally shed their wool were kept alive by clipping their wool off, and they were bred to other sheep so that this trait of not shedding was passed on eventually to most other domestic sheep. So today we clip off the wool instead of gathering it.

Jill and her lambs pose for a picture.
With wild sheep both males and females have horns. But in the process of breeding sheep to produce more wool the female sheep lost the ability to grow horns. Today only the male sheep, the rams, have horns.

Times for the program vary and reservations are necessary. Generally, tours are held from 10 to 12AM, 1 - 2PM, or from 2:30 to 4:30PM, but times can be flexible to meet your needs. Please call 859-781-5502 to reserve.

If you are interested in setting up a tour, please call us at (859) - 781-5502.