My husband and I went with our son to visit Holmbush Farm last weekend and were really looking forward to it. Admittedly our son is a little young (4 and a half months), but he was more of an excuse for us to go and see the animals.
However, most of the venue seems to be given over to a very large and carefully constructed play area. I realise that we did not make use of that and if he had been a little older, I am sure our son would have loved playing in it. The venue is named as a 'farmworld' and the animals seemed to be almost an extra in the venue. Whilst the play area was lush and green and created with care, imagination and an awful lot of timber. The animals were kept in a large barn in small pens on concrete floors and were not in that great a condition. I am no animal expert but I know that chickens and turkeys should have so many feathers plucked out of them whilst alive. The animals were in confined conditions and it showed.
There was a large field outside that was completely unused and we just felt so disappointed that it had not been made more use of for pens etc whilst the animals had what seemed to be a miserable existence indoors.
There were some geese and a couple of pigs outside that seemed much happier than the other animals.

We had a look around the barn, went on a tractor ride that cost us an extra 80p each after the £7 per adult entry, then left without even a second look around the animals. We were there less than an hour and really do feel that it was not only extremely expensive for what it was but the animals were very badly cared for.

The grounds also house paintballing and it really did seem that they whole place was run for maximum profit for minimum effort and the ones who really paid the price were the animals.