阿媽的話

阿媽,你走的那一天,距离现在已有2个月多了,

想你,在每个家里的角落,不管房里,客厅,厨房,都有你那犹新的脚印,

那双毫无从来不觉得累的双手,无时无刻都会准备佳肴,清理一切家里的事物,

记得每当我从大学回来时,不管是假期还是新年,都会有一道道佳肴摆在桌上,

有你煮的咸菜加里,酱油大虾,卤肉,杂菜等,每一道都无不垂涎三尺,吃了一次还想要呢!

你说你是向祖母(太妈)学习这些亨饪功夫的,虽然我只是小时尝了太妈煮的,可现在也许忘了其味道,但是你煮的每一道菜都有你亨的独特味道,无不叫人喊’赞’!

还记得我最喜欢在厨房帮你准备材料吗?尤其是切蒜头,你还赞我的切法’妙;呢!呵呵!好光荣!~

至今,我还保持着这功夫呢!当然哦,我就是这样习惯这个切法啊!~

在你开始无力一人在厨房亨饪时,每当回到来,在厨房陪你的次数越多,也向你学习亨饪的工夫也更明白

你开始无能为力的在与病魔抗斗时,我心里好难过.每当看你那辛苦的呕吐,无法消化,肚子胀风,腰骨痛时,吃药只是暂时性舒缓,好心酸! 我好想可以立刻发明一种药,把你的病即刻医好!

童年,虽不是我理想中的那样天真,那样活泼,那样幸福.可你让我决的人间处处有温情,

这种亲情,好真挚,好真诚,也好难形容,就像在冷冻的天气里,你无时无刻把炭送给我,让我感觉温暖.这远远超越母爱,你对我的疼护,我的关爱,我铭记于心,我要在天上的你知道,无论天涯海角,不管哪个角落,我都希望你开开心心.无法无时无刻的服伺你,照顾你,我心里有点遗憾,可是我相信只要在这世上做好自己的本分,活出自我,那就是对你最好的礼物.我知道你希望我好,我也是如此,所以不管如何,想你,后哭了,也好,我都明白生活都是要好好充分度过.生老病死是生活的必经之路,每个人来到这世上,也一定会有离开的时候.我会活出自我!

阿媽,安息吧!

这首歌道出我的心声~

A Visit to Chicken Farm

It was my 6th week of intern ,and yesterday, friday, unexpectedly, i have the chance of going to chicken farm!  

One of the farm of Sinmah Multifeed Sdn Bhd, coded NS 1

The outside view of one of the brooders

The entry to the farm

Thanks to Dr Narex and Dr Azril for allowing me to have a chance of having a short trip to Sinmah Breeders Farm ( NS1) at rembau .

 Today at noon, I am so surprised that Dr Azril came to me and told me that he and Dr Nerex will bring me to the breeder farm.i was taken aback, feeling so surprised as I am not expecting he will bring me over there today. I thought he will bring me over next week. At the same time I am so excited to have this chance to go to the farm to witness the operation and condition of the farm with my own eyes. 

We departed at 12.30pm after I got permission from Miss Toh( QA Manager of Sinmah Multifeed). We had a chat in Dr Narex ‘s new car( Kia) while on the way to the farm.  This new car is a four wheel car which is newly bought by the company. As a vet, Dr Narex and Dr Azril are expected to travel a lots, thus the car, petrol fees, as well as all the maintenance fees are under company sponsorships and responsibility. As they need to travel daily to the breeder farm , so this kind of benefit will be surely provided by the company. Dr Azril was expecting his new car to be a better four wheel car, maybe a Hyundai or Kia, but he is not so expecting the company will provide him a better and costlier can than Dr Nerex as Dr Nerex is his senior and junior, and I am wondering is a junior will expectedly have a company sponsored car of cheaper price than a senior? LOL, I guess this is a very subjective and I know that Dr Azril will feel contented to whatever new car the company got to offer him. But for sure the previous salon car was a no no, as it would be very troublesome to travel against a stony and hilly roads up to the farm with a salon car, definitely a four wheel car is needed.

When we reached the farm after having our lunch( Nasi Daun Pisang) at one of the famous Indian restaurant at Tampin, Dr Nerex and Dr Asril guided and explained to me the operation of the farm.The farm located at a very remoted area. I noticed at the entrance there are wheel drip column specially for lorry to dip the tyres and be sprayed with the disinfectant sprayer fixed around the wall before entering the farm.This is to avoid 

any contamination and ensure good sanitary.

The chicks are lying  and enjoying the feeds on the feeder.

The drinker in Red and Yellow colour.

A few chicks awaiting for Post-Mortem.

Wow, when you stepped into the brooder , the chicks will shunned away from you. 

The heater in the brooder

 There are 5 workers and when I reached there, there are 2 indonesian workers in charge of the farm. They have their own wooden house to stay as they need to take care of the birds 24 days 7 weeks. The farm manager is a Chinese guy who rent the facilities and land for Sinmah breeder group to grow broilers there.  There are 7-8  brooders( a heated house for chick) for growing the birds, each brooder can have the capacity to accommodate up to 17000 birds.

The wood shaving are scattered on a floor layer for the small birds to move around. According to Dr Nerex and Dr Azril, the use of wood shaving has its purposes. It protects the small birds (Grower) from falling down from the brooder. When the birds start to grow for a certain size, the layer of wood shaving will be rolled up because the birds are able to walk stably on the brooder. Besides serving the purpose of protection, the wood shaving also absorb moisture and provide heat to the birds. There are drinkers and feeder inside the coop which are to provide water and feed to the birds. Sometimes the drinkers might be unbalanced and contains not enough water, so the workers need to take note and correct the mistakes whenever possible. Dr Nerex said the feeder need to be full of feeds as birds sometimes can have a different eating habit, and thus the feed need to be filled fully to ensure the birds obtain enough nutrients for their growing pattern. 

Besides , the brooder also equipped with heater( using infrared ray ) to provide heat to the birds. it is usually switched on at night.  When the birds grow to 1.5-1.7kg only will the birds be sent to be slaughtered and further processed in Food industries.

It will take half year for a hen to mature and 67^th week old to continuously producing eggs . The capability for a hen to produce eggs range from 175-180 eggs per life span.

Integrated companies like Sinmah have the whole operation of producing chicken to further processing the meat based food . So basically there are Sinmah Livestock, Sinmah Breeder, Sinmah Food Industries which cater for the need of an integrated company.

To make it simple, there are basically divided into three categories:

1.  Broiler- The tasks is to grow the broilers for further processed food purposes. The broilers are usually be given unlimited nutrients and allow for quicker grow.
2.    Layer- This category has its sole purpose, that is to grow the broiler which meant for only laying eggs.Cocks and hens are not allowed to mate, thus hens will yield unfertilised eggs.
3. Breeder – to breed the birds , allowing the mating between cocks and hens. Fertilisation occurs and eggs hatched to produce chicks.

Dr Nerex and Dr Azril performed post mortem to a few birds. As a vet ,they are supposed to check the farm in which mortality of birds are reported to verify the health status. Dr Nerex even tested me the name of the organs from which he dissects the birds. luckily I answer them correctly all thanks to the practical experience I obtained from dissecting rats during Matriculation Biology practical as well as biochemistry practical 1.

    

It is an eye opening experience to have short visit to the chicken farm. If one day i ever have a chance, i will surely set up my own farm=p