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The children's farm


The chicken coops
The children's farm used to be one of the centres of a child's life. While grown-ups supervised their activities, the children performed all but the most difficult duties that looking after animals entails.
They milked the goats and sheep, fed them and cleaned out their cages
Billy goat

A kid
bottlefed the kids and lambs,
fed the geese and chickens, gathered their eggs and put them into the incubator, cleaned the goose pond,
Geese

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