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Animals, Animals, All Kinds of Animals In its earliest days, the Dodge Family operated Mountain View as a working farm. Now, after many years as a resort, we are paying tribute to the property’s historic roots by offering guests of all ages the opportunity to get an up-close-and-personal look at our own Mountain View Farm. We are still a working farm, our focus being yarn fiber. Using fibers from contributing animals consisting of alpaca, llama, Leicester Longwool sheep, Angora goats and Angora rabbits, we combine them to create our unique Mountain View Farm Blend. We also harvest our chicken eggs, have gardens for our vegetables and a newly planted apple orchard and blueberry bushes. Come visit miniature donkeys Coco and Ringo and our family of Nigerian dwarf goats. In the spring of 2010, our dwarf goats had 11 babies. We also have llamas Willie and Whisky, Cinnamon the alpaca, and our Angora rabbit, Angus. Our small flock of Leicester Longwool sheep, Lily, Rachel and Anna, are members of a breed that unfortunately has been moved from the "threatened" to the "critical" category by the American Livestock Breeds Association. This makes the U.S. population all the more important to the long-term survival of the breed. We have also adopted three Romney sheep from a local girl who couldn't tend her flock when she went off to college. Onyx, Camilla and Tia now happily frolic with our three other sheep. We have also acquired critically endangered CVM/Romeldale Sheep, Frisbee and Milkshake. Our Spotted Draft horses, Pecos and Belle, are always stomping and whinnying, ready for a pat on the nose. A flock of Barred Rock, Araucana and New Hampshire Red chickens can be found nearby, cackling away. A common morning activity the kids love to join in on is our daily egg collection, although being that there are only so many to collect in a day, this is certainly for the early bird! A trio of one of the most spectacular cattle breeds in the world is hard at work clearing grown-over, former pasture land. Three Scottish Highland cattle, eight-year-old Willoughby and her heifer calf, Cassidy, and another youngster, Jessie, are busy chewing their way through eight acres or so of poplars, long grass and vegetation just on the back side of the hotel’s fourth golf fairway. Come meet the farmer and see why Mountain View Farm is a fun and noisy place. We can’t wait for you to visit!
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