A sign of spring is the arrival of baby animals, especially the lambs! Here is our round-up of great places to see baby lambs and other farm animals in and around Doncaster 🐑🐣🐰
Boston Park Farm
Boston Park Farm is a traditional working farm, with the farm park which is open to the public and allows children to get up close with a wide range of farm animals. You can pet and feed most of the animals and also join in with animal handling sessions. The whole experience is geared up to suit children up to around 10 years old. With outdoor climbing frames, swings, slides, a go-kart track, mud kitchens and a bale pyramid to climb, as well as an indoor soft play, bouncy castle, play kitchen and sandpit, there’s loads of fun to be had!
Visit this Easter for their Easter Fun Event (18th – 21st April 2025) and their Spring Farm Challenge (29th March – 19th April 2025)!
📍Boston Park Farm, Bawtry Road, Hatfield Woodhouse, Doncaster, DN7 6DS
☎️01302 844818
Cannon Hall Farm
Spring is a great time to visit with hundreds of baby lambs, goats and piglets due to be born. There are also fantastic play areas (indoor and outdoor) and a whole programme of activities. The farmers will be in the roundhouse every day answering your questions.
Lambing takes place between 29th March and 21st April 2025
📍Cannon Hall Farm, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Wentworth Garden Centre and Family Farm
Recently rebuilt and revamped, Wentworth’s Family Farm is the ideal place to visit with the whole family. Visit the farm this Easter from 29th March – 21st April 2025 for animal handling sessions, Easter colouring and more.
📍Wentworth Garden Centre, Hague Lane, Wentworth, Rotherham, S62 7TF
The Ranch Farm Shop and Cafe
Help out the farmer with some of their daily jobs, including meeting and feeding the goats, lambs, and hens, and collecting eggs from the orchard. Running from 9th April – 1st May 2025.
📍The Ranch Farm Shop and Cafe, Grove Road, Womersley, DN6 9BT
Graves Park Animal Farm
Graves Park Animal Farm provides a popular home to some of the rarest breeds of farm animals in the country. You can get up close and personal with Tamworth pigs, Highland cattle and Jacob sheep, plus goats, donkeys, waterfowl and many more. The animal park is FREE to visit but is offering lamb bottle feeding experiences from 24th March – 11th May 2025 for £10 per person.
📍Graves Park Animal Farm, Hemsworth Road, Sheffield, S8 8GY
Hall Farm Park
At Hall Farm Park there are lots of friendly animals and fun indoor & outdoor activities for the whole family to explore. You can also meet the new baby lambs this Easter.
📍Hall Farm Park, Caistor Road, South Kelsey, Lincolnshire, LN7 6PR
Pink Pig Farm
The Pink Pig Farm comprises a prize-winning tea room, indoor play barn, family farm park, imaginative play area, toyshop, and food from the farm. From 5th – 21st April 2025 you can take part in their Easter Eggstravaganza – hunt for eggs and meet the Easter Bunny.
📍Pink Pig Farm, Holme Hall, Holme Lane, Scunthorpe DN16 3RE
White Post Farm
There are always loads of lovely animals to see at White Post Farm! From alpacas to meerkats, there are lots of different animals to meet. From 5th – 21st April 2025, you can have a go at their Easter trail and meet the baby lambs.
📍White Post Farm Mansfield Road, Farnsfield, Newark, NG22 8HL
Piglets Adventure Farm
There are always lots of animals to see at Piglets, plus a lot more fun to be had while you are there! From 5th – 21st April 2025 you can visit and see live lambing and take part in lamb bottle feeding.
📍Piglets Adventure Farm, Towthorpe Grange, Towthorpe Moor Lane, York YO32 9ST
Aston Springs Farm
A beautiful woodland trail including meerkats, alpacas, rheas, sheep, pigs, chickens, donkeys, deer, goats, ponies, reptiles and more plus a play area. They have an Easter trail on from 18th – 21st April 2025 and you can book on to their goat experience from 5th – 21st April 2025.
📍Aston Springs Farm, Mansfield Road, Aston, Rotherham, S26 5PQ
Rand Farm Park
There are plenty of animals to see including goats, donkeys, ponies and alpacas. You can take part in their Easter hunt from 5th – 22nd April 2025.
📍Rand Farm Park, Rand, Lincoln, LN8 5NJ
Beetle Bank Open Farm
From alpacas to pigs, turkeys to goats, there are lots of wonderful animals for you to get to know. You can also let off steam in the fields, go wild in the adventure playground, have fun in the sand pit or ride on the tractors and play with the inflatables. They are offering lamb and goat bottle feeding experiences throughout the Easter holidays.
📍Beetle Bank Open Farm, Moor Lane, Murton, York, YO19 5XD
Matlock Farm Park
Take a leisurely walk around the park to see and pet many of the field animals including cows, sheep, pigs, goats, donkeys, and more! Visitors can learn about the new lambs at our cade lamb sessions, watch them being fed and get involved in gentle petting. Children can also follow an Easter Treasure Trail every day from 5th April – 21st April 2025.
📍Matlock Farm Park, Jaggers Lane, Matlock, DE4 5LH
N.B Pregnant women should avoid sheep during the lambing season (January – April)
We hope you enjoy seeing some baby animals or lambing this spring!
