So today I'm a Hay Dairies and it's Singapore only goat farm
and I'm here at Lim Chu Kang which I've to drive like you know 45 minutes to.
So for all of you who don't know Singapore is a very very modernised city
and everywhere you look basically just looks really really urban and build up
but this area is open and there's no high-rise buildings
not the usual Singapore that you would find and
I'm really excited to go in and see how farm life is like in Singapore because
it's not something you can experience everyday.
Okay so I'm here with Leon from Hay Dairies.
XiaXue: And this is your family business right? Leon: Yep.
Leon: So basically what we have here we run the only dairy goat farm the Singapore
Leon: and what we produce here is our fresh goat milk.
XiaXue: So why is the farm call Hay Dairies?
Leon: Okay the interesting thing is it my last name is Hay. XiaXue: Huh!
Leon: So we decided to name the farm... XiaXue: What is that in chinese?
Leon: Oh in Chinese we called it "夏" summer+
XiaXue: Oh my gosh! If I married him i can like literally have kids called XiaXue.
XiaXue: It's so weird that your name is like hay and then you grow up to be like actually feeding hay every day.
Leon: Okay so this where we house all the younger goats
Leon: and the older goat.
Leon: Would you want to carry a goat? XiaXue: Yes!
XiaXue: They are mehing. They are actually mehing.So cute!
Leon: These 3 smaller. These one should be about less than two weeks old
XiaXue: Less than two week old! Leon: Ya! Which color you want.
XiaXue: Err.I choose from these 3? This one, brown. Leon: This one brown okay.
XiaXue: Oh my god I'm very stress.
Leon: Palm under the chest and just hold okay.
XiaXue: Hi! Aiyo so cute!
XiaXue: Very fizzy! And very calm.
Leon: They're exactly like a puppy like that.
XiaXue: Why are they mehing you think. They like you or what.
Leon: Baby they see human they like because they are very happy to see us.
XiaXue: Really so cute!
Leon: Okay so now we will feed the goats. XiaXue: Okay.
Leon: There are two thing that we feed the goat in the farm here.
Leon: One is our grains from Australia,
Leon: and the second thing is our alfalfa hay from US.
Leon: It is the same ones that we eat on our salad our alfalfa sprouts.
Leon: And these guys here they are waiting for you to feed them.
XiaXue: Oh my god! I can tell. Leon: So what you do now is
Leon: you just take out a little bit like this
XiaXue: Yeah. Leon: okay you have to experience it better you do this
XiaXue: Won't get bitten ah! Leon: Won't la.
XiaXue: Huh, you sure or not. Leon: Sure you see.
Leon: Okay come try. XiaXue: My turn to feed
Leon: Yep! XiaXue: Oh my god! I very stress.
Leon: Okay just put it on your palm. XiaXue: Okay
Leon: And you can just go ahead.
XiaXue: Here I'm guys.
XiaXue: Haha they snatch everything already.
XiaXue: Here you go. Okay they're not biting me.
XiaXue: So the boys have horn is it? Like see this little one. Leon: Okay these are all mountain goats
Leon: So basically both boy and girl both have horns.
XiaXue: Oh okay you know like all the goats are kept here but
XiaXue: I'm sure there are people who will always say like all animal should be kept in the wild and stuff.
XiaXue: So what do you think? Leon: For us here at the goat farm,
Leon: we try our best to make sure that the goats here are all kept in ample space Xiaxue: Yeah they are
XiaXue: very comfortable. Leon: So they are all very well spread out.
Leon: But you also notice that they do not touch the floor they are all elevated ground.
Leon: If the goats are all elevated ground they will less one problem we caught soil diseases.
Leon: So in a farm here we doing this concept we have close, like zero soil disease at all. XiaXue: Oh okay, that's good.
XiaXue: The goats have sort of given up on him giving the hay cause
XiaXue: when he's talking, he's going like that and they are like.
XiaXue: Damn poor thing.
XiaXue: And this one damn greedy, this one has been standing here the entire time. Some of them gave up, walk away already.
Leon: Let's try and feed the big ones okay
XiaXue: I don't want, I scared I legit scared.
Leon: If scared you hold this way okay and then just from the distance and let go.
XiaXue: He chop very fast. Why do they have like the iris that looks like such a weird shape
XiaXue: and I always don't understand. Leon: Goat's iris if you look closely right,
XiaXue: They are rectangle shape. Leon: Yes.
Leon: A Goat's view is about 160 to 180 degrees.
Leon: So if you're standing behind the fella,
Leon: he can see you. XiaXue: Huh!
XiaXue: Wooya! This guy is like super curly hair. I like it.
XiaXue: What's the most interesting fact about goats?
Leon: Goats are birth, they always give up two babies at the time.
XiaXue: Ohh. I didn't know that. Leon: 90% is always 2.
Leon: So we rarely get 1 goat or 3 goat
Leon: because if you get 1 goat the kid will be too big.
Leon: If you get 3 goat the 3 guys will be too tiny.
Leon: But when is 2, it is just nice.
Leon: Okay you want to have a go at trying to milk the goat manually?
Leon: Normally in the farm here we do it by machine
Leon: So for your case today we were special exception,
Leon: We'll let you do by hand but first I'll give you a very simple safety and hygiene brief before we proceed on.
XiaXue: So now Leon is going to show me how to milk the goat.
XiaXue: So he just gave me some guidelines and said that I'm a little bit too
XiaXue:colorful for the goat. I'm very stress out right now.
Leon: So basically these are all dairy goat. XiaXue: Yeah!
Leon: We use them for their milk. So every morning it comes out like this.
XiaXue: How often do they get milk?
Leon: We milk them here once a day.
Leon: Okay so how we do it okay n it's very simple.
Leon: Fingers first and second close, XiaXue: Okay.
Leon: then squeeze one two three and it will come out already.
Leon: Like can you see?
Leon:Can? XiaXue: Can!
XiaXue: Oh my god! Am I really going to try it?
XiaXue: It is not painful for the goat right? Leon: Noo.
XiaXue: And the udder is very warm.
XiaXue: I guess it feels like a hairy boob. Hahaha or something.
Leon: So basically what we have here is what we call modern farming.
Leon: Basically we do everything by machine here. XiaXue: Oh the milk goes in there!
XiaXue: A lot of milks in there.
XiaXue: I really feel like putting this on my boob to see how strong it is.
XiaXue: have you try it like on humans boobs before?
XiaXue: Is it like way too strong? Can you put it on my palm so I can see? Leon: Can, no problem.
Leon: So basically is like a suction, you see.
Leon: It is not that strong. It is like the breast pump, same concept.
XiaXue: I see that you are married, did you wife breast feed also? Leon: Yep!
XiaXue: Then did you help her manually plump out her milk.
XiaXue: Sorry. Leon: That is a personal question. Hahah.
XiaXue: Okay so Leon have the milk here for me to try.
XiaXue: Is this the one i squeeze just now?
Leon: No, but this is the one that we milk yesterday. XiaXue: Okay.
Leon: We have to have pasteurize the milk first, so this is as fresh as you can get.
XiaXue: So I heard people say that like goats milk has a very like goaty taste and stuff, is it true?
XiaXue: Like I never tried goat milk before so I'm a little bit scare of trying it today.
XiaXue: I hope I don't spit out your product, but if I do right it's just because you know
XiaXue: maybe some people have different palate.
Leon: I always tell customers to take it with an open mind. So we will try the original first?
Leon: Okay, just take 1 big gulp.
XiaXue: Okay leh. It just smells like normal cow's milk.
XiaXue: It's quite nice what. It taste just like normal cows milk to me.
XiaXue: Like it's um I would say slightly lighter you know in a way.
XiaXue: Okay it is definitely very creamy, it just has a little little little bit of the goat taste la.
XiaXue: It taste pretty good.
Leon: Chocolate XiaXue: Okay let's try the chocolate.
Leon: Chocolate just give a shake.
XiaXue: It's not very sweet ah Leon: It's because there is not sugar.
XiaXue: Oh it is just a chocolate flavour to it yeah.
XiaXue: So do your own kids drinks your goat milk?
Leon: Yes, my own kid drink their mommy's breast milk and drink this. they don't drink cows milk at all.
XiaXue: Oh really! Leon: Free one! Hahahah!
XiaXue: Wah, true leh! I spend a lot of money on milk okay.
So I cannot believe that for the first time in my life I actually got to milk a goat.
I don't think many people have tried that before.
You know what it's pretty fun and I guess if
there is ever a zombie apocalypse again
and we all have to learn farm life, I know how to milk a goat.
And I think that you know this place
actually opened to parents to bring their children here to visit the goat and everything
and it's definitely a putting good idea to bring your kids here.
When you talk to your kids about farm life in books and stuff like that
they don't really get a real idea of what it's like until they see for themselves
so this is pretty eye-opening. And I think it's so cool that
you know Singapore still have farms around.
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