The children from Mattapany Day Camp visited the Whitney Farm to learn about caring for animals. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney introduced the children to the animals, including Bo Bo the donkey, Fluffer Nutter the sheep, cinnamon the alpaca, horses, goats, chickens, and peacocks. The children helped feed and care for the animals, learned how to brush, clean and spin wool, and collected eggs from the chickens. At the end of the fun-filled day, the children thanked the Whitneys for the learning adventure at their farm.

1. The Whitney’s Farm
Teaching 4-H the 6 year old youth about
farm living and caring for animals
and how they will care for you in return.
After a short bus ride full of
singing and anticipation Gail
Whitney and her husband Mr.
Whitney greeted the youth and
introduced the children to the
animals. This is Bo Bo the
Donkey he protects all the
animals and is 11 years old.

2. The funniest character was Named Fluffer
Nutter the sheep who thought he was one of
the kids totally into listening and wanting to be
involved in every activity.
Here Kelly and Layla were
demonstrating how to sit in a
surrey while Miss Gail pulled
it along. One of the ponies
does fit this small rig.

3. Cinnamon the Alpaca
Loved to hum and is super soft!
Miss Gail trimmed a little alpaca
fur and sheep's wool for the
children to take back to the camp.
She showed the children how to
brush , clean and spin the wool
from the animals into yarn.
Tyreek waiting patiently for a kiss
on the cheek and cinnamon
hummed then lightly touched his
cheeked and the sweetest little
giggle came from deep inside. It
was very cute!

4. How to care for a Horse!
Horses get brushed daily and
just like kids who wash their
hands daily horses hooves
need to be cleaned. Mr.
Whitney demonstrated to the
youth how to clean a hoof
scraping the dirt out of the
hoof avoided the frog of the
foot and v shaped soft spot in
the middle of the foot.
Like humans horses need
their hooved trimmed
because they can grow too
long and seriously injure the
horse.

5. Goats !!!
• The goats had split
hooves enabling them to
walk in the mountains
when they were wild.
• They provide milk to
make things like cheese
and soap.
• They like to eat grains
and veggies!

6. What do the Animals eat?
The children leaned
about Hay and
grains and fed the
animals. Just like us
they eat a few times
a day sometimes
grains and
sometimes hay. As
treat apples and
carrots. The animals
had a water trough
full of water to drink
from anytime they
wanted too.

7. Chicken, Geese and Peacocks
The children collected
eggs the chickens laid
that morning.
•Some were white
and some were
brown different
chickens lay different
colored eggs.
•The children took the
eggs back to camp.
•Chicken eggs take
approx. 21 days to
incubate and then
hatch.

8. To the Whitney’s
from the Children and the Counselors of
Mattapany Day Camp,
Thank you for the fun learning adventure at
your farm!