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The farm features tradition farm animals like pigs and goats, but with a special twist. Giant guinea-pig creatures, capybaras, squirrel-like sugar gliders and four species of macropod (kangaroo and kangaroo cousins) roam the grounds.

Visitor Katrina Fast, 11, said she wanted to see the sugar gliders, which originate from Austrailia.

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Wightman has owned macropods since 1989, but she came upon them unexpectedly.

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The 10 macropods arrived but never left. Her friend never came to get the animals and through the years they bred and multiplied.

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The petting farm grew from there. Today, the farm has more than 40 macropods and four different species; two species of kangaroos, the wallaroos and reds and the two species of wallabies which include camas and bennetts along with a trove of sugar gliders, pigs, peacocks, capybaras, chickens and more.

Cost is $10 for adults, $5 for youth and seniors and children under five are free. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily at 3193 Hill Rd.

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