I've written about our PP animals and included pictures on my postings from time to time. It is fun to have the animals in the barn area and the petting zoo during the season and they are a big hit with our visitors and Play attendees. During the winter months, many of our animals are housed indoors on a ranch in Berryville, about 12 miles from here, since we don't have heated facilities on the PP grounds.
The only Play animals still here are the four chariot horses, centurion's horse, and cross-back Christ donkeys, Michelle, Nancy, Abraham (our 8 month old Christ-donkey-in-training and Elizabeth (our full-grown miniature cross-back donkey). We have the white homing-pigeons and their little ones (squabs) on the property, as well.
The petting zoo animals all have shelters with heat lamps and seem content to be here. It's quite a menagerie: sheep, goats, miniature horses, ducks, rabbits, a lama, miniature pigmy goat, Samson the Great Pyrenees, Indy the pig, turkeys, chickens, feral cats and Clay (the potter's cat). Every so often we have someone "drop off" an animal and Joe takes it into the family.
There are quite a few deer on the property and they like to visit the Tabernacle, the vineyard and even the parking lot area where we are parked. They don't seem to mind our presence. The plan for next season appears to include a few more horses for the Roman soldiers, more sheep (the ewes are all "with child") and maybe a couple more camels. I visited Abraham and the other donkeys yesterday at the barn. Sure is fun to have animals as part of our Passion Play staff.
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