All About Your Child

We were disappointed when we knew we had missed the milking session in our previous visit to the Hay Diaries Goat Farm. So this morning all 4 of us were up early at 8am… the boys were so eager to go, it wasn’t a problem to get them ready at all.

Some of the teats were so huge, it couldn’t quite fit ‘nicely’ into the pump and the men had to use their hands to express some milk first before its ‘small’ enough to fit into the automated pump.

What amazed me was when one batch has been pumped dry, the in-charge would unlock the gate and the goats know their way back ‘home’ without being guided by any human, as the next ‘unpumped’ goats took over the ‘stage’. Wow! Throughout the session, my boys were so full of questions, “Mommy, why this and why that…” or “Papa, how come this goat do this and do that…” *laugh* They enjoyed it! Yeah!

Their very first taste of goats’ milk. Hmmm…. they didn’t like it as much as their Dumex milk powder. After one sip, Mommy had to finished the rest of it, ‘cos Papa dislike the smell. Luckily the bottle isn’t that big. Anyway, its just S$2, how big can the bottle be…*eyes rolled*

This time I was ready to spend more (time & money) on the feeding. Instead of getting one miserable packet of grasses, I bought 2 packets ~ S$4.

I was happy even though I spent S$6 at the farm… the boys had a great time! After the feed, they even requested to stay for a while longer to look at the young goats playing around with each other.

But I wasn’t that happy when I saw what happened to a familiar ‘Grandpa’ goat I met during our previous visit.

There was a huge lump hanging on his neck. It was as big as a tennis ball and the skin had split opened, like the way you would cut your orange, revealing the red-sore-flesh under that thin skin… *Ouch*

I wonder if it was a tumour…. hmmm… I wonder how painful can that be…. *frown*

After the visit to the cemetery, Allan wanted to lightened up my spirit and so we went for a drive around Lim Chu Kang. We chanced upon this wonderful place.

I love greeneries, told you that when I went to the Bottle Tree Park and now let you know another side of me, I love farms too! Some people find the place smelly. But that same smell makes me happy! *huge laugh* I’m weird! *laugh*

There is goat milking session between 9am – 11am daily. We missed that. But we will be going back again just for that! The kids will love it! (more like mommy will love it *laugh*) Ohhh…. this place brings back good memories of the goat farm in Brisbane, when I was there for my honeymoon 8 years ago…

We had fun feeding the goats for the price of S$2.00. It was the cost of a packet of grasses. They started feeding the kids (baby goats) first.

(Did you know that another name for baby goat is ‘kid’? I forgot about that name till I went to the farm.) Some of the kids were so excited, they stood so tall, almost as tall as my boys!

Then we moved on to the ‘daddy and mommy’ goats. Woah! They were aggressive, they pushed each other in order to be fed by us. One of them stood up and was as tall as Allan!

We were lucky to be able to see the keeper triming off the ‘nails’ for the goats. It was tough just to catch hold of one. In fact, it was rather amusing to watch the keeper swinging the ‘loop’ over the goat’s head and all the goats were running around that confined place like kids playing ‘police and thieves’ *laugh*

And before we left, Keatkeat patted the ‘grandpa (look at the beard) and grandma’ goats. Binbin wasn’t interested, he just can’t wait to get another packet of grasses!!! *laugh* Nah… we didn’t obliged. We told him, “next time baby Binbin, next time….”

Ever wonder…..Why do goats wear bells?

Because their horns are not working!

*Laugh*

(Without realizing, I’ve already mentioned 13 places where kids would love to go…(and I have another 6 in my draft waiting to be posted, oh dear!)… check out the other 12 under the category : Places Kids Love)