Showing posts with label Goat Farm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goat Farm. Show all posts

Sunday, February 8, 2015

New Babies At Hays Goat Farm

Date:  Feb 8, 2015

Last week, surprisingly, the kids has no enrichment class on a rare Saturday.

So, we brought the kids to Hays Goat Farm to buy the goat milk.  And visited some of the familiar places we used to go when they were young, such as the Koi pond just beside the Jays Goat Farm, and Qian Hu.

The kids still love to drink goat milk.  They love to see the goats.

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That they have witnessed the first ever animal delivery.

This man was delivering two babies for this goat mommy.

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Here are the video footage.  It seems that the mommy cannot deliver the baby, so this animal vets came to deliver for her.  As you can see, he practically pull the baby goat out from the womb.

The kids were thrill to see all these.  

When the baby was out, the man pad the back of the baby.  And he has to blow air into the lungs too.  To make the baby live.  And at the end, baby is alive.

Notice also all the “bystanders”, those goats who are watching from far behind.

And the goats from the other fence.

We enjoyed our day out.  It was a fruitful learning journey.  Later we went to the Vegetable farm just next door of Hays Goat Farm.

There was this Koi fish pond that the kids love.

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The koi fish are big and they are hungry.

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The old vintage swing was fun.

We used to come here many times a year.

When Jay Jay went into P1, because of the enrichment class, we did not manage to come here for many years.

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We went to Qian Hu too.  And ate Nasi Lemak there.

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Jay Jay starts learning Science this year.  So, we even brought back some leaves (lalang) where we seldom find in the city.

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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Ribena Plant

Date:  July 9, 2011

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Every kids love to drink Ribena.  Do you know what does the Ribena plants & seeds/flower look like?

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Here is the full three shot that I took at the farm store just beside Hay's Goat Farm...

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They actually sell it in packs...

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And when you bring it home, don't forget to take out the seeds inside... and cook it in water... Otherwise, the taste will be bitter...

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OK.  Now, the plant is not actually called "Ribena".  Ribena is the brand of the drink.

The plant is called Roselle Plant.  Biology name is Hibiscus Sabdariffa.  Its actually one of the Hibiscus.  In Chinese, you can call it 玫瑰茄, or 洛神花、洛神果、洛神葵、山茄、洛济葵.  Its a health drink.

I remember when I was young, my mom have lots of Roselle Plant in the garden.  And almost every now and then, we drink the red color drink cooked using Roselle plant's fleshy calyces.

More info about this at http://myfunsky.blogspot.com/2010/02/ribena-p.html