We visited Hay Dairies Goat Farm on 14 April 2009. It was a great experience and we learned a lot from the trip! These are our take aways...
1) Goats can only produce milk after they have given birth. - Shaun
2) The farmers use a milking machine to milk the goats. - Shane
3) The goats on the farm are from America. - Warren
4) The farmer burnt off the horns on the female goats when they were young so that they do not hurt one another when they are pregnant. - Edward and others
5) The goats store their milk in their udders. - Corey
6) The goats on the farm are mountain goats. - Yi An
7) Some of the goats are brown and white but most of them are black. - Corey
8) Male goats are called bucks. - Renee
9) Female goats are called Does. - Ryan
10) Goat's milk from Hay Dairies are not sold in the supermarkets. - Victoria
11) Baby goats are called kids. - Nicolle
12) Goat's milk is 'warm' in nature but cow's milk is 'cooling' in nature. - Yi An & Hsien Ray
13) Goat's milk contains more protein than cow's milk. - Ryan
14) We can tell the age of a goat from its teeth. - Xu Long
15) Goats have no upper teeth when they are born. - Anndrya and Shaun
16) When the goat is a year old, it will grow one upper tooth. - Anndrya
17) A goat produces 400 litres of milk a day. - Teresa
18) There are 700 goats on the farm. - Kaeden
19) Goats are herbivores. - Ashley
20) A goat has 2 teats on its udder. - Jasmine
21) The female goat will be stopped from having kids after 10 years. - Ryan
22) A goat gives birth to 2 kids each time. - Gerlyn
23) Pregnant goats give birth after 5 months. - Joy and En Qiao
24) The farmer spray iodine on the goats' teats so that they will not be infected by bacteria. - Warren
25) We must store the milk in the cold refrigerator or it will turn sour. - Warren
26) Goat's milk is alkaline but cow's milk is acidic. - Ian
27) We should not boil the goat's milk because the heat will destroy the protein. - Tze Kang
28) We should put the milk in a hot water bath if we want to warm it. - Jonathan
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