RAGLAN Park Farm is celebrating the birth of its long-awaited baby donkey and is looking for name suggestions, writes Claudia Wyatt.

Tina the donkey gave birth to a beautifully fluffy foal on Tuesday morning.

Farm owner Gareth Williams mistakenly thought it was a girl, but later realised he was in fact a boy.

Mr Williams, who runs the farm with his cousin, Gwynne, said that between the sun coming out and the birth of the foal, business has been booming at the farm over the last few days.

Mr Williams said: “We’ve had around 1,000 visitors today but he [the foal] seems to have settled in very well to life on the farm despite the busyness of the last few days. He’s taken it in his stride.”

His cousin added: “The birth was a bit complicated but, luckily, Gareth was ‘on hand’ to help the delivery go smoothly, but I think he’s due a trip to Specsavers.”

Raglan Park Farm is both a working farm with more than 1,000 acres of land and a petting farm with a variety of activities to keep children entertained for hours.

The farm is home to quite a variety of animals including Lammy the Llama, Whiskey the Shetland pony, Arunvale the Alpaca, as well as chickens, guinea pigs, emus, goats and turkeys.

It really is a family business, with Gareth’s mother, Dilys, and father, Keith, as well as his twin daughters, Amanda and Elizabeth, both 12, helping out during the school holidays.

If you would like to enter the competition to name the foal, join the ‘Raglan Farm Park’ group on Facebook.