Holiday Farmer - The afternoon milking : 3.00pm - 4.30pm - SOLD OUT

Overview

Do you have an enthusiastic animal loving child that would love the opportunity to get up close and personal with our farm animals? Come and help the farmer for 1.5hrs with his afternoon routine, giving the animals their tea and giving them a health check.  Jobs will include : Milking a cow, feed and care for the calves, feed and cuddle a lamb, check for lambs being born.

Suitable for budding farmers aged 2 years to 15 years. All children must be accompanied by an adult. This experience will have a maximum of ten participants and be when we are CLOSED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC and therefore suitable clothing/ footwear must be worn as we will be going in with the animals. All experiences will commence with a brief, mandatory Health & Safety talk. Toilet and Hand Washing facilities available on site. For Health & Safety reasons, we do not allow food or drink to be consumed whilst taking part in this experience.
Location
Boydells Dairy Farm, Braintree Road, Wethersfield, Braintree, England, CM7 4AQ, United Kingdom

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Rating: 10 out of 10

"Really lovely experience, farmer Will , was funny and friendly and good at making sure every child got involved. Was good value for money for the time there and everything they got to do. Thank you. ..."

Laura February 2026
Rating: 10 out of 10

"We all had an amazing time and will definitely be back again."

Adele February 2026
Rating: 10 out of 10

"The experience was fabulous. It was great value for money and Finn made the whole session magical. My daughter loved sitting with the lambs, with them bouncing all over her. Bottle feeding a lamb and ..."

Heidi February 2026