3RD WEEK

Day 3:

After having so much fun in the crops section last week, we exchanged sections with group 2. The livestock wasn't so bad after all because we were staying in an airconditioned room and we spent a lot of time inside the office getting lectures from Sir Daniel.

He assigned us to make a poster about quails. Group 2 last week was assigned about cattles and they actually did a pretty good job. After so much of Sir Daniel's instructions and lecture, he dismissed us to talk about our poster and boy, it's not really easy.

After spending so much time inside the office, we decided to eat lunch and spend the remaining time playing volleyball.

We came back later in the afternoon with surprising events in stored for us. We met two guys, Sir Jabiz and Sir i-forgot-his-name.

They were great and they taught us interesting facts about chickens.

(note: l-r, Sir Jabiz and Mr. Mysterious =p)

I thought we're just going to look at chickens and have a "long" lecture about them but i guess i was wrong...actually half-wrong.

(terence is the brave soul who is outnumbered by "feathered warriors" but still manage to catch some of them)

I guess part of the lecture is catching some chickens and using long cotton buds (at least that's what we call them) to insert at the anus of the chicken to get "poo" samples. Sir i-forgot-his-name told us that they need these samples to know if the chickens have some internal disorders or diseases.

(here's a pic of carla taking some chicken "poo" out of its anus)


(and here is audie trying it out too)


(infamous pic of a chicken's anus)

After that unexpecting (can i say disgusting?) experience. We moved back to the office and we went inside a "secret" (nah...just joking) door that opens to a room with incubators. Sir Jabiz explained to us how to raise the chicken's eggs and he asked us a question (or should i say trick question...=p) "who came first? the chicken or the egg?". Most of us didn't answer that question but still Sir Jabiz explained it to us.

He then showed us lots of eggs inside an incubator (note: cover your nose because the smell isn't good).

We even saw one that is hatching!

Well, after all these activities, we retreated to the office again and did nothing for more than an hour. After that, Sir Daniel dismissed us and off we went home...hooorah!