The animals of Green Meadows Petting Farm have a choir all their own. City slickers head to Kissimmee to learn where our food comes from.
 
"People see everything in the books,” said Linda Landford with Green Meadows Petting Farm.  “We want people to have a hands-on of what a chicken actually feels like."
 
That's if you can catch them.
 
"You're actually going inside the pen, you're making your own experience of catching it on your own,” Linda said.
 
After spending 20 years at Green Meadows, the animals have come to love Linda.
 
"We have Ugmo.  Ugmo is a dwarf cow,” Linda said as the 4-foot-tall cow slobbers over romaine lettuce.  With her toothy grin and under bite, Linda said Ugmo looks like another animal.
 
"Kinda like a bulldog look with the teeth that poke out,” Linda commented.
 
Next door is Ugmo’s neighbor, Angel, the pot-bellied pig who flips her dish when eating the leafy romaine.
 
Yet the star is a mother cow named "Sweet Lips."  No trip to Green Meadows is complete without spending some time with Sweet Lips, where children of all ages can milk their first cow.
 
"That is what we've tried to teach them over the years -- how to milk a cow, what it's like to get the milk out of a cow, instead of out of a carton,” Linda explains.
 
Green Meadows is also home to a "Zorse."  What’s that? Try half zebra and half horse.
 
"Who came up with that idea to mix that up?" Linda asked.
 
A train rides the rails through an authentic Florida swamp.  Passengers climb aboard to search for animals, go through a dark tunnel and then look for alligators.
 
And be ready, many animals from turkeys to peacocks roam the farm, along with the “guard dogs.”
 
"Our shelties roam free all over the property.  They go in at night.  But during the day, they roam free and are part of the experience of the farm,” Linda concluded, inviting visitors to spend time cuddling with the dogs.

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