Moorhunhe
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We went on holiday to Belgium for almost 2 weeks, as that's where I'm from, but our holiday got a very rocky start, and we couldn't use our own transport when arrived to Belgium.
So my sister went online looking for things nearby to do that would involve animals, and something not to far away so my dad could drive/come along.
She found Boerderij Daalhoeve, which is a 20 minute drive for us, just accross the Dutch border, with free entry.
Boerderij Daalhoeve
There's a list of animals on their website, and mostly goats, sheeps, cows, chickens and donkeys, but also Fennec Fox, Serval, Wallabies, Otters, Capibara, Azari's Agouti and Meerkats.
There's also Camels, but they seemed to be in a different spot away from everything else (we actually spotted them in a field next to the main road when driving back home).
It seemed like a very odd combination for what comes accross as a "petting zoo" (you are allowed to pet all the "regular barnyard" animals.
Off we went, just a nice day out of the house for a couple of hourse.
You are greeted with the Meerkats first, and they seemed to be sharing their inside enclosure with the Capibara. Next to them are the Blue-and-yellow Macaw, and then the Serval enclosure.
We counted 3 Servals.
On another path you go to the Fennec Foxes, of which we counted 4 of them.
Along the paths are miniature donkey's that you can pet, miniature cows, and lots of different types of goats & sheep.
There's a "hug barn", where they have big rabbits, small type of pig and guinea pigs of which most you could pet.
On the other side are a few Wallabies, at least 1 white one, and I think we counted 4 different ones, but there could be more. They aren't great to spot from the path, and with high grass in their enclosure. We mainly managed to see some when walking back to the car, so looking into the enclosure from the outside through the fencing/bushes.
They are also builing a new enclosure to house prairi dogs.
We actually went back a week later, it was our last day and wanted to still do something that wasn't too far of a drive, and by then, our own transport was fixed, so we went again.
So there's actually 4 Servals, 2 "younger" ones and then probably both parents.
The young ones were so much fun to watch, playing together and pouncing on each other for quite some time.
And we counted 6 Fennec Foxes that time.
It's definately nothing too big, but for being free, they still have a nice bunch of animals together there, and if you're not too far away, I'd say stop by and have a look.
We went on holiday to Belgium for almost 2 weeks, as that's where I'm from, but our holiday got a very rocky start, and we couldn't use our own transport when arrived to Belgium.
So my sister went online looking for things nearby to do that would involve animals, and something not to far away so my dad could drive/come along.
She found Boerderij Daalhoeve, which is a 20 minute drive for us, just accross the Dutch border, with free entry.
Boerderij Daalhoeve
There's a list of animals on their website, and mostly goats, sheeps, cows, chickens and donkeys, but also Fennec Fox, Serval, Wallabies, Otters, Capibara, Azari's Agouti and Meerkats.
There's also Camels, but they seemed to be in a different spot away from everything else (we actually spotted them in a field next to the main road when driving back home).
It seemed like a very odd combination for what comes accross as a "petting zoo" (you are allowed to pet all the "regular barnyard" animals.
Off we went, just a nice day out of the house for a couple of hourse.
You are greeted with the Meerkats first, and they seemed to be sharing their inside enclosure with the Capibara. Next to them are the Blue-and-yellow Macaw, and then the Serval enclosure.
We counted 3 Servals.
On another path you go to the Fennec Foxes, of which we counted 4 of them.
Along the paths are miniature donkey's that you can pet, miniature cows, and lots of different types of goats & sheep.
There's a "hug barn", where they have big rabbits, small type of pig and guinea pigs of which most you could pet.
On the other side are a few Wallabies, at least 1 white one, and I think we counted 4 different ones, but there could be more. They aren't great to spot from the path, and with high grass in their enclosure. We mainly managed to see some when walking back to the car, so looking into the enclosure from the outside through the fencing/bushes.
They are also builing a new enclosure to house prairi dogs.
We actually went back a week later, it was our last day and wanted to still do something that wasn't too far of a drive, and by then, our own transport was fixed, so we went again.
So there's actually 4 Servals, 2 "younger" ones and then probably both parents.
The young ones were so much fun to watch, playing together and pouncing on each other for quite some time.
And we counted 6 Fennec Foxes that time.
It's definately nothing too big, but for being free, they still have a nice bunch of animals together there, and if you're not too far away, I'd say stop by and have a look.
