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Suson Park is a favorite with a lot of kids. There are fishing lakes, a big playground, and Suson Farm. You’ll have to go onto the farm to get some of your Junior Ranger requirements, so check our website for summer and winter farm hours. Also, if you come during the winter, the big barn is only open on weekends. |
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#1. Look for small brown “Attention Anglers” signs along the lakes. There are a couple close to the red barn. These are creel limit signs. They let you know how many of each species of fish you can catch and keep in a day. Sometimes there’s a size limit too. What’s the daily limit on crappie? _____. What’s the length limit on smallmouth bass? _____ |
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#2. Go to the Suson Farm entrance. As soon as you enter the red barn, you’ll see a life sized wooden cut-out of a Clydesdale horse on your right. Back in that area you’ll see three displays of things that horses wear. What are the three things? ____________, ____________ & ____________ |
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#3. Find the pot-bellied pig couple. What are their names? ____________ & ____________ |
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#4. Go to the big barn. Just inside, on your right, you’ll see the dairy cow milking stanchion. There is a vacuum gauge on the stanchion. What is the highest number on the gauge?_______ |
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#5. Go farther into the barn. There’s a breed of horse there that knights rode into battle during the Middle Ages. They called these types of horses “chargers” or “warhorses”. They were used because they were fast and agile, but strong enough to |
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carry a knight in full armor. Sometimes the horses wore armor too! What is the name of the breed, and what is her name? _____________ & ______________ |