Alpaca farm feeds April vacation fun
Goats eagerly await food from Jonathan Hurrie, 2, at Pine Meadow Alpacas on Saturday, April 18. Photos by Grace Roche
Lainey Carlton, 2, feeds a cone to goats while her mother looks on. 
Molly Wirth, 9, made sure none of the food other visitors dropped on the ground went to waste. 
Two goats hope for some food. 
Visitors of all ages fed the animals. 
An alpaca nibbles the fence. 
A young visitor looks at the farm's miniature Zebu cow. 
The Hurries came from Sandwich to feed the animals. 
Maggie Lafleur, 4, avoids a close call with a hungry goat. 
Jake the four-horned Jacob sheep was a favorite for some visitors. 
Jonathan enjoys his new friends. 
After commandeering the camera, Collin Smith, 2, snaps a self-portrait.
Goats eagerly await food from Jonathan Hurrie, 2, at Pine Meadow Alpacas on Saturday, April 18. Photos by Grace Roche
Lainey Carlton, 2, feeds a cone to goats while her mother looks on.
Molly Wirth, 9, made sure none of the food other visitors dropped on the ground went to waste.
Two goats hope for some food.
Visitors of all ages fed the animals.
An alpaca nibbles the fence.
A young visitor looks at the farm's miniature Zebu cow.
The Hurries came from Sandwich to feed the animals.
Maggie Lafleur, 4, avoids a close call with a hungry goat.
Jake the four-horned Jacob sheep was a favorite for some visitors.
Jonathan enjoys his new friends.
After commandeering the camera, Collin Smith, 2, snaps a self-portrait.
MATTAPOISETT — Four-legged friends clambered at the fences restraining them, straining for a nibble of food as visitors at Pine Meadow Alpacas started off April vacation.
The farm hosted its first open barnyard of the year Saturday, April 18 as kids and their caregivers fed and pet the goats, horses, rabbits and many other animals housed there. A snowy-white wallaby, born just last year, even made an appearance.
Kaitlin Wirth, of Marion, brought her two children to the event as part of a full slate of activities planned for the week. Later this week, Wirth said she’ll take her kids to the Museum of Ice Cream in Boston, the Plimoth Patuxet Museum in Plymouth and Battleship Cove in Fall River.
She said she took the week off to spend time with her kids Molly, 5, and Joseph, 9.
“It's a nice local event, it's easy for the kids and it's so nice that food is included in the admission,” she said.
Each visitor was handed a cake cone filled with animal feed as they entered the farm. Molly said she had fun feeding the inhabitants, even if it was “scary” when they went for the food she offered in her outstretched hand.
Her favorite animals were the miniature horses, she said.
Lauren Smith visited the farm with Kiera, 6, and Collin, 2. The Mattapoisett resident said she wanted to bring her kids since the event was so close to home, and it was a chance to get them outside despite the chilly weather.
“The animals are really fun to see, and they love feeding them,” Smith said.
