{"id":188416,"date":"2026-05-10T02:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188416\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T02:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:58:26","slug":"visitors-cuddle-with-highland-cows-baby-animals-at-berks-county-festival-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188416\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors cuddle with highland cows, baby animals at Berks County festival | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAERNARVON TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; People who love farm animals got a chance to get up close and personal with them on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver&#8217;s Orchard in Caernarvon Township hosted the second annual Highland Cow Festival.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of highland cows, pigs, sheep, and other baby farm animals were brought over from Swartz Farm so people could cuddle with them.<\/p>\n<p>There was even a kiss-a-cow booth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the goal &#8212; that people can come here, have a good time, especially people in areas where they&#8217;re not close to farmland, that they can have that farm experience,&#8221; said owner of the orchard, Ed Weaver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Visitors also got to enjoy some good food, hayrides, a tube slide, and other family-fun activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAERNARVON TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; People who love farm animals got a chance to get up close and personal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-188416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}