BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Connie Cross of Cutchogue helps her grandson Mason Kelleher, 18 months, as he holds a baby chick at Hallockville Farm on Saturday.

Hallockville Museum Farm’s ‘Springtime Life on the Farm’ was a babe magnet Saturday afternoon.

Parents and grandparents with young children and babies in strollers and carriers  came out to learn about life on the farm. There was story time with baby chicks, farm chores made fun, a spring relay race, a scavenger hunt, naming the baby cow and a master gardener garden supply raffle.

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Mini-Jersey cow Zoe and her baby boy calf are greeted by Rosie Rawcliffe, 2, and her sister and Julia, 4, of Oceanside. The cows are owned by Hallockville Executive Director Herb Strobel who operates Thee's farm in Center Moriches, a 28-acre farm, where he grows hay.

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Alexandra and Eric Serras with 9-month old baby Tilly of Brooklyn fill out their suggestions for naming the calf. They were Bob and Attila. The name chosen out of about 50 was 'Eddie.'

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Alexandra Serras and Tilly ge up close with a baby chick.

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Julia Rawcliffe, 4, of Oceanside shows off the green beans that she planted and decorated the pot. Her grandmother Pat Hoffman of Jamesport is standing on the background.

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Rosie Rawcliffe, 2, and her sister and Julia, 4, of Oceanside feed the chickens some corn they just ground up the old-fashioned way.

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Hallockville volunteer Carol Denys reads 'The Life Cycle of a Chicken' to the children in the barn. Who knew that chickens can live up to 12 years?

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Connie Cross of Cutchogue helps her grandson Mason Kelleher, 18 months, as he holds a baby chick.

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Luke Cohl, 4, of Greenport gives a chick some love.

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Julia Rawcliffe, 4, of Oceanside holds a baby chick.

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Savanah Connors of East Moriches helps Rosie Rawcliffe, 2, of Oceanside use a washing board to clean clothes.

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Brothers Evan Huber, 3, and Brian of Riverhead grind corn to feed the chickens.

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Mason Kelleher, 18 months of Rye, gets help from his father Dan digging in the dirt.

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One of the Hallockville's sheep that will soon be sheared.

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Grace Prindle, 5, of Orient enjoyed washing clothes and hanging them up to dry the old-fashioned way.

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Liam Springer, 3, of Mattituck, sheared a wooden sheep in the relay race.

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Grace Prindle, 5, of Orient, jumps through the end hoop in the relay race as volunteer Katie Bockino of Riverhead watches. Grace won the relay for her team.

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