To allow children of all ages (& those children at heart) the opportunity to experience a hands on interaction with a range of farm & domestic animals.
We have set up a mini mobile farm which can be taken around the local area to allow children to experience a range of animals up close and personal. We intend to at a later stage turn our lifestyle block into a full petting zoo/farm. We advise anyone who invites us to their place or who visits us on site to be aware that although our animals are friendly, all animals are capable of having bad mann
ers at times. Therefore we advise you that we have certain rules to be followed around our animals, and take no responsibility or liability for any possible injuries or damage that may occur. We specialise in attending children's functions such as Birthday parties, Christmas Parties, and family reunions , childcare centres etc.
19/04/2024
We still have rabbits and guniea pigs for sale .. only selling in pairs, if you are are a so called animal rescue wanting freebees to sell on please don't bother. We have put a lot of time love and money into our babies. They are not free!!!!!
First in gets choice. Will not hold any now due to people not showing up to collect.
Rabbits 2 for $40 ( 2 left)
Guniea pigs 2x $30
13/04/2024
We are still getting enquires.... sorry Crazy Critters after 11years of service has CLOSED its doors. The petting farm has been disbanded
**** we can offer pony play sessions at home in umawera or the odd pony only party
13/04/2024
RABBITS AND GUNIEA PIGS FOR SALE
We have for sale some of our younger rabbits ( female's) must go in pairs as used to company. $40 per pair
Female's guniea pigs, mixture. Must go in pairs as used to company. $30 per pair
Umawera pick up
13/04/2024
One final.birthday, we didn't have the heart to cancel this pre-booked party in kaitaia.
Now we are finished. We have rabbits and guniea pigs for sale.
Cece really pushed his boundaries with Bruce today, stopping to try and roll with his wee rider. Naughty pony.
04/04/2024
We have for sale some of our younger rabbits ( female's) must go in pairs as used to company. $40 per pair
Female's guniea pigs, mixture. Must go in pairs as used to company. $30 per pair
Umawera pick up
30/03/2024
AND JUST LIKE THAT, ITS ALL OVER.
CRITTERS HAS FINISHED IT'S 11YEARS OF SERVICE,and what a huge event to finish off with.
Waipu Carnival, very very busy. Lots of pony cart rides. Thank you team awesome effort, with our 4.30am out the gate. And of course it just isn't a critters day, unless there's one Karen complaining, and today it was because several children were growled at for hurting chickens and the rabbits, so again reinforced why we are done in. Other than that a truely awesome event. Thank you to all.our loyal supporters over the years.
26/03/2024
All Sorted now, thank you..
WE STILL NEED A HELPER FOR THIS SATURDAY!!!!
Due to one of our helpers pulling out at last minute... we need an extra pair of hands with the petting farm thuis Saturday 30th in Waipu. 9am til 2
Job will involve Either leading ponies or supervising the petting pens, topping up waters, keeping animals safe, and helping children with them.
Must be reliable and not scared of getting your hands dirty,
25/03/2024
EASTER WEEKEND, your last chance to see the crazy critters at a public event, before they retire from service.
Petting pens and pony with cart rides available.
Don't miss a great day out.
WAIPU CARNIVAL
SATURDAY 30th
9am til 2pm
NOTE CHARGES FOR EVENT ARE SET BY THE CARNIVAL ORGANIZERS, not the critters
24/03/2024
Rounded off a busy weekend with a lovely birthday party in kaikohe. Honeycwas today's cart pony, abd Tinto was the rude pony. And wee rose calf had an outting without her bigger mentor, metor, who was NOT impressed at staying behind.
23/03/2024
Then a race to make it to party number 2 for the day. Not so many animal oriented children here, with just a few who really seemed to enjoy the experience. Hale gave some cart rides out in the paddock. Thank you for afternoon tea.
My ankle us certainly sre now after a full on day
23/03/2024
Busy exhausting day with 2 parties thankfully both fairly local thankyou for lunch much it was much appreciated. A beatiful party at event 1. Lots of animal interactions and pony rides on Cece and cart rides with Hale. Everyone was listening well and learning to handle the animals calmly, and gently . Lots of wonderful adult supervision too.
19/03/2024
OUR FINAL CRITTERS BOOKING FIOR THE PUBLIC!
last chance to see the critters before they retire.
NOTE: pricing and time limits etc are set by the organizers for this event (not us)
pony and cart rides also available.. (No ride on ponies just cart)
Join us for a great day out at the Waipu Easter Carnival 2024! You'll find live entertainment, stalls, loads of yummy food, rides and games, auction and raffles. Lots of parking available.
Koha entry and all proceeds go to Waipu Primary School. See you there!
17/03/2024
Our younger smaller Billy goat is "Cody", and his girl friend is Nova, ( the brown one) proven mum. Could be pregnant. Go as a pair only... $150
17/03/2024
With the farm closing and due to marriage break up.. some of the stock needs to go..
Walk a bout (walkie) our wonderful billy around 5yrs old.. very good at his job, very friendly, loves a good scratch gehind the horns. Done petting as a baby. Comes with his 3 girls .
Coguar, Duchess and Jilly ( All done the petting pens as babies) will not split. Girls should be pregnant
$300
10/03/2024
Left the boys to it today. Very quiet at the whanau afternoon for cruz the bays. Always hard to compete with the prepaid free entertainment .
09/03/2024
CRUZ'N THE BAYZ family day 12pm at Waitangi onwards come check the stalls, live entertainment bouncy castles and more
Petting farm only attending $8 entry ( cash only, we don't carry a lot of change fir safety)
05/03/2024
CRUZN THE BAYS whanau event 12pm onwards this Sunday 10th March
Critters Petting farm operating $8 event pass to pens.
03/03/2024
Last few snapshots from field days 2024
02/03/2024
Thank you team. Caro, Bruce, Andrew and Amelia. Awesome effort... we survived the long haul.
02/03/2024
Field days day 3. Much busier day. Lots of pony rides, lots of animal interactions. Came home straight home tonight, so looking forward to a good sleep tonight. Been a long 4 days with the traveling and setting up
We had great neighbour's this year, loveshack cabins.. make sure you check them.out when you need that extra room..
01/03/2024
Relaxing, just chilling out after another long day.
01/03/2024
Mixed bag today, lots of happy people and of course the odd Karen, (*as my son calls them) it was hot again, and everyone (staff)is tired, grumpy..
Honey and Chester ponies worked today. Lots of calf cuddles, pig scratches all round animals experience
29/02/2024
And to the woman complaining ponies have no shade. . Is that not a gazebo beside truck where ponies are tied. Both ponies can move in and out of it freely on their lead ropes.
29/02/2024
Critters 2024, fieldays.
29/02/2024
Honey and jojo go for a look around fieldays
29/02/2024
Northland field days day 1, 2x rest homes called in for a visit. So the animals enjoyed popping into the vans to say hi. Pretty quiet day all round.
29/02/2024
Fieldays 2024
Site L4 and L5
Ponies running 10 til 3 only in this heat
26/02/2024
All homed for now pending pick up!
FREE. Thought we had found all the nests, but still they keep poping up.
Free young chickens... un sexed. And more still free ranging with mum. X breds
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Honey and jojo go for a look around fieldays
Honey doing what she does best - today it was playing reindeer for Mrs Claus.
Driver on training
Hey big brother, you alive.... yes bossman was so relaxed he was in a deep sleep as Fidget pushed him around the pen.
What happens when you split the heard then join them back together a few weeks later. Lol
Duncan going through his paces tonight in harness
Got to get the itches out.
Awww come on, play with me.....
Double trouble. Cece and Duncan... no wonder.my rugs are all ripped to pieces.
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We set up a mini mobile farm back in about 2013, which can be taken around the Northland district to allow children to experience a range of animals up close and personal. Our farm has grown since we first started, and we are always on the look out for new babies to hand rear. We are now breeding some off our own animals too. We tend to be bottle feeding something all year round.
We advise anyone who invites us to their place or who visits us on site to be aware that although our animals are friendly, all animals are capable of having bad manners at times. Therefore we advise you that we have certain rules to be followed around our animals, and take no responsibility or liability for any possible injuries or damage that may occur.
We specialise in attending children's functions such as Birthday parties, Christmas Parties, and family reunions , childcare centres, school galas and public events etc.
We offer the option of farm visits, pony only visits or a mixture of both. our ponies are friendly and safe and spend a lot of time working in crowds. We can give you the experience of a pony and cart ride, or ride on ponies.
As we didn’t want a farmyard of animals that have tummy love syndrome, eg. see children and assoicate wiht food, getting pushy and aggressive and nippy, we have a policy of “No feeding the animals by children” when we are out and about, our animlas do it because they enjoy the attention, the love, cuddles and brushing that comes with an outting. They are relaxed and contented where ever we go.
We come to you at your venue/event. Bringing wiht us gazebos for shade, and we always carry water for the animals. the bowls get topped up throughout an event, even tho children and even the aniamls like to tip the water out. Saddly there will always be that 1 person who complains when a bowl is empty!!! Even if they just watched the animal tip it out!!!
We buy in the bobby calves to use in the farm, and often take in strays and rescue aniamals along the way. And we regualarly get rung up and offered animals, or asked to take on negecte cases or resuce cases as some would call it. We happily do this if we have the time and space at the time to do so, or sometimes we know of another home etc etc.... This is all done quietly behind the scenes. We do NOT addvertise ourselves as a resuce centre, and we do not expect handouts.....Our babies earn their keep happily.
It takes a lot of time, paitence and hard work to make the animals as friendly as they are and they actually sulk when they don’t get to go out. We run our pens as a no feeding pen when out, this way our animals do not get what we call (tummy love syndrome) where they see children and get too pushy and agressive as children are associated wiht food not love. This also allows us to know excatly what our babies have eaten and how much. As yes animals can also get over fed and gain too much weight. We often hear people, say “ohh we could do this we have aniamls at home in the paddock.... OH I wish it was as easy as that!!!!!lol
We are also not a babysitting service, we facilate the activy buut expect parents/ teachers etc to join in the fun and help supervise their children.. We do not tolerate any mis behaviours around the animals, everyone needs to follow the rules to keep our animals safe and happy, and for everyones enjoyment.
We just love helping the children to build relationships wiht our pets, and gain conifence around them, learning how to treat the animals well. etc.....