Ambury farm

I was so excited to go to ambury farm with my school because I knew that there was going to be lots of animals and we get to feed and touch them.

When we got on to the bus the last few people got on board and the bus began to move. The ride was so comforting and I felt like sleeping but at the same time I was to excited. After about half an hour we reached the farm.

The first thing that we did was eat our morning tea and then we put our bags in the locker. We went into a barn where we met our two tutors named Caroline and Maradith. We got told all the conditions and rules about the farm. We eventually got into an activity it was a game where you had to sort the card into order under these three categories: What is out of the farmers control, Inputs and outputs. Inputs is what the farmer sells, outputs is what the farmer needs to buy for the farm and what is out of the farmers control is like the weather for example. 

Finally We got to go and explore the farm and the first place we went to was the milking shed and met two cows named Maggie and Fly they were mother and daughter. We got to touch them and feel how hot the milking pipe was. In that session I learnt that one cow fills an approximate ten two liter bottles which is twenty liters!

Next we went to the sheep shearing shed and we got shown how to shear a sheep and the main reason that they do it is because they want to prevent fly strike and if that happens to one sheep that sheep is at a ex termly high risk of dying.

We finally got to feed the animals. The first animal that we feed was the sheep I was a little bit scared but I still did it and it felt like a little kiss on the hand. The next animals we fed were the goats there were only two of them so it was a little bit harder but we all took turns but now I wasn't scared to feed them. Finally we fed the chickens it felt like somebody poking a sharp pencil on your palm. We also met the horses and then started to head back for lunch.

We had our lunch and started to head back to the bus. That was my day at Ambury farm I really enjoyed it!