To experience the true country escape, a farmstay just 1 or 1.5 hours from Melbourne is the answer. Kyneton and Ballarat are the centres for the farmstays and you will be amazed by the open space and the chance to see wildlife in its natural environment. Farm sizes vary from just a few acres to 6500 acres.
Typical farms in these areas are beef cattle, sheep, horses, emus, ostrich, alpaca, angora goats, vegetables, flowers, crops, vineyards and mixed farms.
Farm activities could be:
- Collecting hens’ eggs
- Spotting kangaroos and possibly koalas
- Hay feeding of animals
- Watch a sheep dog herding sheep
- Milking cows or goats
- Calving
- Bottle feeding lambs
- Branding of animals
- Farm maintenance
- Mowing of lawns
- Veterinary observation
- Desexing of bulls
- Fencing
- Drenching of animals
- Horseriding
- Grooming of horses and other animals
- Moving animals from paddock to paddock
- Foaling
- Leading animals in training for agricultural shows
- Pre–cleaning of sheep before shearing
- Sheep shearing
- Inoculation of animals
- Picking fruit, berries or vegetables
* These farm activities are often seasonal and will be performed at various times throughout the year and can be particular to specific farms.
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