If you decide to come to Tryal cottage for your holiday, you will be guaranteed a very warm welcome from us, and an opportunity to make friends with our many animals who live with us. Our animals play a huge part in our lifestyle and tend to have the run of the farm so be prepared for frequent visits from “Commander Bond” the cockerel and his many hens or “Daphne and Delilah” the geese with their best pals, the ducks!! We also expect that “Tigger, Roo, Jones, Chewey and Mumble”, the Tryal farm cats, will also pay you a visit at some point during your stay with us. They are all very friendly but very nosey!! If you like horses then you will undoubtedly make friends with ours. “Millie” is our beautiful part shire mare who is known as grandma as she is nineteen years old now, semi-retired and in charge of all the other horses. She loves people and likes treats of polo’s, carrots and apples!! Her best friend is “Daisy” our lovely little Dartmoor mare. She is sweet most of the time but does have her moments of not wanting to talk to anyone!! Then we come to the two youngsters, “Basil” our Dartmoor gelding and “Humphrey” our very naughty miniature Shetland stallion. They are both friendly but are always doing something they shouldn’t be. We are currently in the process of starting our miniature Shetland stud and “Humphrey” is our foundation stallion. We have a gorgeous miniature Shetland filly foal coming to live at Tryal farm at the end of the summer called “Pumpkin” and she will be our foundation mare. Hopefully in the future they will produce some lovely little foals that our visitors can also enjoy becoming friends with. In addition to the above animals, we also have rabbits and we are hoping to add some sheep, goats, pigs, cow, more poultry and guinea pigs in the future for ourselves and our guests to enjoy. We regularly have a good supply of fresh free range chicken, duck and goose eggs for sale and our visitors are more than welcome to purchase them if they wish to. In the future we are intending to be more self sufficient in producing our own meat, vegetables, fruit, eggs, etc and again, our visitors are more than welcome to share some of this home produce with us. We are also extremely fortunate to have some truly magical wildlife around the farm. The most spectacular of this are the magnificent Red Kites of which we have a resident pair. They are wonderful to watch and pay us a visit almost everyday. There is an abundance of other bird life such as buzzards, woodpeckers, pheasant, tits, owls and many others. We have also seen foxes, badgers, wild rabbits and on one occasion, otters. There are many trees and plant life surrounding the farm to enjoy and we also have two small ponds that are home to fish, wild birds, dragonflies, frogs and other water loving creatures. So we hope you would like to come and stay with us at Tryal farm and experience the delights that this part of Wales has to offer. We are sure you will not be disappointed and we all look forward to meeting you.