Barnyard Petting Zoo returns to Greene County Fair
WAYNESBURG 无毛视频揊airgoers will once again have the opportunity to engage with adorable baby animals in a close-up, hand-on experience through the Barnyard Petting Zoo, which will be featured at the Greene County Fair from Monday, Aug. 10 through Saturday Aug. 15.
The Barnyard Petting Zoo, owned by Jan Marchezak and sponsored by the Greene County Messenger and the 无毛视频-Standard newspapers, will feature baby pigs, lambs, baby goats, a baby llama, miniature ponies, calves and donkeys, as well as a baby camel and a baby zebra.
This year, there will also be puppies at the petting zoo, as they are a crowd favorite. Because all of the animals are friendly and social, people are welcome to feed, pet, hug and take pictures with the animals.
The Barnyard Petting Zoo stands out from other petting zoos because of how the animals are reared; all of the baby animals are hand- and bottle-raised, so they are well acclimated to human touch. Because the Barnyard Petting Zoo tours around the tri-state area of southwestern Pennsylvania, visiting schools, birthday parties, fairs, festivals, and company picnics, they have multitudes of animals, with new additions every year.
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Marchezak, who founded the Barnyard Petting Zoo in 1981, was inspired to raise animals ever since she was a little girl, when she would listen to her father talk about the array of animals his family raised. Inspired by his experiences, Marchezak decided that was what she wanted to do that as well. 无毛视频淢y love of goats is what started it all,无毛视频� Marchezak explained. 无毛视频淲hen I was 19 years old, I got my first pair of goats. They were the backbone of the Barnyard Petting Zoo.无毛视频�
To this day, she has descendants of the original pair of goats.
What started as a pair of goats has evolved into a traveling petting zoo that continues to captivate fair goers every year. In Marchezak无毛视频檚 experience, everyone who attends the fair in the evening stops by to see the animals.
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Marchezak has a personal and emotional connection with her animals as a result of raising them from such a young age. She admitted to have struggled with being too overprotective of her baby animals.
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In the past, she found it hard to trust people to handle the animals gently enough, something she is learning to get over.
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Her petting zoo has proved to light up faces with smiles as children and adults are delighted by baby pigs, miniature ponies, and many more baby animals.
Though Marchezak has shared her Barnyard Petting Zoo through many venues, she is always excited to go back to the Greene County Fair.
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