Week 3 Internship~

We're here, Livestock unit. I'm pretty excited with the prospect of working with animals. Gonna spend 1 and a half week here. We were exposed to many things we haven't know in the past here. It's a great learning experience. Straight into actions:

Injecting the de-worming dose to the goats to prevent diseases caused by worms. She's not happy about it.

This fella died on the 2nd day of our duty at the Livestock unit. He hasn't eaten anything for the past 4-5 days because of an infection in his mouth destroying about 50% of it. I had the zoomed version of the pic of the mouth, but it's too uncomfortable for certain viewers so I decided not to post it. Don't worry, every sheeps goes to heaven :)

(This blog is rated 13+, those 12 and below are advised to be under their parents guidance haha)

Taking the circumference measurement of the chest of every sheeps and goats to make sure they are in an optimum shape. Get in line, ladies and gentlemen. Here's my colleague, Dr. Fillicia as your vet.

Oh, FYI, you can determine the goat's age by looking at their teeth.

This is their favourite, Mulberry with Napier grass for dessert. Thanks YB Lawrence and Datin Valarie for the meal. Bon appetite~

This is the Poultry unit. It's about 2.5 km, approximately 20 minutes walk from hostel. Let's meet the chickens and the ducks.

The place where we're going to transfer the chicks is sprayed with a solution called EM stands for Effective Microorganisms which encourage the decaying of their waste, thus preventing the burning of the chicks chest cause by sitting at their own waste.

These chicks is still in the "Perindukan" stage. Notice the light bulbs, it keeps them warm.

A good worker is a tired worker, right? :P Taking a nap during short breaks.

Not feeling well that day.

We had the chance to make salted duck eggs. With the ratio of 1:3:30, representing 1kg of salt, 3 litres of water and 30 duck eggs. It came out to be a little too salty but, it's delicious when you are the one who make it! ^_^

We also grade some chicken eggs with an egg-grading machine. The grades depends on the size of the eggs. A+, A, B, C, D and E. The greater the grades, the higher the price.

After a long day work, it's a long walk home. I'm not complaining. This keeps me as healthy as a horse. I love Agriculture. It keeps you healthy, and most of all, it brings you money. Huahuahua~

The following day, we went to the hydroponic unit. These are examples of hydroponics:

The stagnant one (tidak mengalir punya).

And the streaming one (mengalir punya).

Hydroponic is a method of growing food plants without using the medium of soil. It only uses a mixture of fertilizer solution. It's pesticide-free since it is placed in a pest-proof shelter.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. And you got yourself a fertilizer solution for your hydroponic system. These are some of the chemicals used in the fertilizer solution.

These 2 guys seem to be having so much fun. It's has been 3 weeks, and they seems to be giggling at almost about anything even though that anything is actually nothing.

Careful, that's hot~

So, that's pretty much sums it up for the 3rd week of my internship. My body reeks of the goats, sheeps, chickens and ducks odor. See you all next time, same time, same channel, only on Discovery Channel.