{"id":14337,"date":"2012-04-02T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cals.ncsu.edu\/agcomm\/news-center\/?p=14337"},"modified":"2023-11-15T15:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T20:49:33","slug":"farm-animal-days-puts-children-animals-in-proximity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/news\/farm-animal-days-puts-children-animals-in-proximity\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Animal Days puts children, animals in proximity"},"content":{"rendered":"
March may have come in like a lamb this year, but for more than 10,000 children and adults who attended Farm Animal Days, it went out like chickens and turkeys and horses and cows, rabbits, pigs and, well, there were lambs too.<\/p>\n
Brilliant late March weather attracted a near-record crowd to Farm Animal Days, an annual College of Agriculture and Life Sciences event that promotes close encounters between children and farm animals. Brent Jennings, North Carolina Cooperative Extension associate in animal science and event coordinator, said the 2012 Farm Animal Days attracted 10,367 visitors. That\u2019s several hundred shy of the 2011 all-time record attendance of 10,962.<\/p>\n