Zoos that are also farms

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birdsandbats

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There are many roadside zoos that started out as farms, then eventually started the zoo within them. But then there is the Milwaukee County Zoo. It is a government-operated zoo that that did start out as a zoo over 100 years ago, but today is a functioning dairy farm in addition to being a major zoo. Are there any other examples like this? I am specifically talking about the facilities that started out as zoo and are still zoos today.
 
While I don’t know of any examples of zoos becoming farms, I do know of farms that have become zoos. The UK coming to mind when following this topic as a number of facilities are like this. Folly Farm and Jimmy’s Farm are both farms specializing in rare breeds that expanded their animal collections in recent years to being fully-functional zoos.
 
Space Farms is now going by "Space Farms Zoo & Museum", not sure if they still have EXTREME PIZZA but they're distancing themselves from it. It's a chain, though, mostly based around San Francisco but there's a few throughout the country.
 
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