The Friendly Farm — Attraction in Dublin

If I could give it negitave stars I would. It's not a very well kept place and the animals look like there only food comes from people that come to feed them. And they all act like that as well. Every single goat is all skin and bones. Rib cages showing and they just herd right to anyone and fight over and few bits of grain someone might have. You cant even have your kid open there hand to pour any grain into it before the goats are jumping on them knocking them down or biting them. The cows are mean they try to ram everyone or bite. And the sheep act like they are being beat on. They are scared of everyone and they run and then they shake when they stop. I come from a long line of horse breeders and farmers we used to raise horses and all my family members had horses. Show horses, pull horses, and riding. And we had goats and cows and none of our animals looked or acted like these ones. You go here, then go somewhere else that is well maintained and the animals are worked with and fed proper you will be saying the...

I loved the Friendly Farm as a child and it had brought me great joy to get to share the Friendly Farm with my wife and our sons. My 4 yr old has loved feeding the goats, chickens, ducks, and cows for the last three summers. His comfort with the animals has grown exponentially over that time and he now has no problem telling a goat to back up and wait its turn (not that the goats listen).

There are a few different ways that you can feed the animals and the farmers are on hand to not only take care of the animals, but also interact with patrons and give children the chance to feed a young goat or cow with a bottle or toss some feed for the chickens. There are also bags of food available that the sheep and goats devour as fast as you can get...

What a fun place! We took our 13-month-old daughter and the farmer let her help feed a month -old calf! Our whole family loved the variety of goats, and enjoyed holding the baby chicks, seeing the baby bunnies and interacting with one of the llamas. Walking around with the sheep was a real treat, though they did seem to be completely over socializing and scattered every time someone would get near. Maybe they were having a bad morning. I do recommend against buying any feed. The only creature that seemed to want the goat feed was the llama. You should definitely go and picnic - the grass is very short, the farm is very clean and there are picnic tables and a very fun...