WITH almost twenty-five years of agricultural show visits under his belt, a travelling farmer is about to make his debut at the Ballarat Times 2023 Ballarat Show.<\/p>\n
Daryl Sheridan of Farmer Darryl\u2019s Mobile Animal Farm will bring his flock of about 100 animals to the show when it returns from Friday 10 until Sunday 12 November.<\/p>\n
Mr Sheridan said there\u2019ll be a variety of farmland friends for attendees to meet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have a collection of sheep and their lambs, some mother goats, and their babies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll also have bottle-fed calves and the kids can bottle feed them twice a day and they can get their photos taken with them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019ll also be a collection of bottle-fed lambs and the same will apply for them. We\u2019ll have some ducks that will swim in a pond, some geese, some chooks, rabbits, two deer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll also have my rainbow parakeet Polly who I\u2019ve written a book about and we\u2019ll do story time with her. We\u2019ll have some fantailed pigeons too. It\u2019ll be quite a collection.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having grown up around animals on his family\u2019s Donald property before establishing his own farm in Kyneton where he lives with his livestock, Mr Sheridan has been mobile farming for more than two decades.<\/p>\n
He averages about 100 events a year, travelling Victoria and New South Wales, and is a regular fixture of agricultural shows across the state.<\/p>\n
Despite his impending Ballarat Show debut, Mr Sheridan is no stranger to the region, and has brought his mobile farm to Sovereign Hill and various schools, and taken part in events like the Begonia Festival, for years.<\/p>\n
Fresh off agricultural shows in Melbourne, Sunbury, Lancefield, and Seymour, he said Ballarat has long been on his agenda.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d always hoped the Ballarat Show would book us,\u201d he said. \u201cI do love how we appeal to lots of people. Grandmas and granddads like us. Mum and dad like us. The kids like us.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s also a lot of people that show animals and travel the state so agricultural shows are a good way for us to catchup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Farmer Darryl\u2019s Mobile Animal Farm will run each day between 9am and 8pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WITH almost twenty-five years of agricultural show visits under his belt, a travelling farmer is about to make his debut at the Ballarat Times 2023 Ballarat Show. Daryl Sheridan of Farmer Darryl\u2019s Mobile Animal Farm will bring his flock of about 100 animals to the show when it returns from Friday 10 until Sunday 12 […]<\/p>\n