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M-F:9am-5.00pm Sa-Su:9am-5.30pm
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Adult: 5000 HUF Children:  3500 HUF

Our farmhouse

The Farmer's Backyard is a showroom for domestic animals and pets which live around the house. It is not only important to show them to the public because they are an integral part of our cultural heritage but also because today people are living in cities, so domestic animals can be counted as exotic, one of a kind animals. Moreover in our Zoo we have a great tradition of presenting pets and domestic animals: Adolf Lendl, the former Director of our institution has already realised in 1909 the importance of this exhibition. He was a pioneer as in other Zoo's experts only dared to adopt this idea only in the 1960's.

The Farmer's Backyard has reached its current shape in 1996. Everything that is a part of a traditional farm can be found here; a Shadoof, a Poultry farm, a stable and pen, a dog kennel, a sty and a sheepcote. The presented animals are all traditional Hungarian species. For example this is true for the following animals; the Transylvanian Naked Necks, the Cigaja Sheeps (Ovis ammon f. aries), the Mangalitzas, the Hucul ponies, Hungarian Grey Cattle and of course the Mudi. We have created a separate place for rabbits. The petting zoo is just a few steps from the Farmer's Backyard. Such a facility can be found since 1989 in the Budapest Zoo. The petting zoo has reached its current, spacious form in 1996. The animals living in here, pygmy goats, cameroon-sheeps and alpacas are ideal and calm enough to let kids go close to them. In close proximity to the petting zoo is a mini city for the guinea pigs. More hundred guinea pigs in several different colours live here under circumstances which are more ideal for the needs of these animals than terraria where the pigs live separately. The Farmer's Backyard has another attraction which can be linked to our farmhouse, the camel park. Bactrian camels can be considered as pets as they serve human kind since thousands of years although we can't really say that camels are traditionally Hungarian animals. Nevertheless we have to note the fact that in time of the Turkish occupation and the Árpád-dynasty occasionally camels were kept in the Hungary.