22nd Jan-2009

Asawari Wrote: We made the Cricket farm and did many other things.

Sad news - The eggs of the Ducks will not hatch as there is some problem in the eggs.

Happy News - Two mother Goose are sitting on eggs. We are expecting Geeselings.

Cricket Farm
We searched for a container in which we will make the Cricket farm. We found a blue deep bucket and a hexagon shaped glass wide container. We washed the blue bucket.We found small plastic boxes. We fetched dry sand. We poured water in it and made it wet. This is for the Crickets to lay eggs in. We got a few empty curd boxes, a small cut pipe and 3 egg holders. We made little tunnels and homes for them to live in.We then went outside for our Cricket search.Crickets come out at night. In the day they are usually under rocks,tiles and bricks. We searched and searched and searched and found only one Cricket. Crickets are difficult to find compared to worms.

Naddy the Turtle
Just when we had left for our cricket search.Lucia and Hennery came. They had got their pet Turtle Naddy along. They said it was not eating anything for a long time. Gerry said it needed more Calcium. He told that because its shell ends were curving and its shell was weak. We gave Naddy some Dragonfly lovers insect to eat.After lunch we went to search for more drangonfly-lovers him.We found one more cricket too.

The Pony
After Lunch we fed the Pony carrots. We even named him Carrot. We tried to feed him cucumber and capsicum but he refused to eat.

Oscar has a bath
Oscar is a baby donkey . He is brown in colour. He likes eating clothes . we gave him a bath .How!- We poured water from the pipe on his body. We scrubbed him with soap and washed him again. He was dripping wet. We kept him in the sun to dry.

Snake !
There was Rasal Viper that Gerry had found at the farm.He was kept in a glass box. He is a poisonous snake.
Feeding the Pigs
We fed the pig and its babies (piglets) the lunch leftovers - capsicum, sandwitch, small muffins (nobody liked them so) and little rubbish of food (bread bits). The mother pig and the piglets were fighting with each other for the food . It was fun .

Comment

I really enjoyed today. I am slowly getting used to animals.

I Wonder
Want the mother duck feel sad as her eggs did not hatch.

Mama Wrote:

Just when the kids were getting tired of collecting sand for Cricket farm concerned Lucia entered the farm with a Turtle in a jar. And ALL the kids wanted to know WHY Naddy has come to the farm – Lucia informed that he has not been eating property so she brought him to Gerry to have a look. Gerry informed his shell sides are turning that means he is not getting enough Calcium (what is Calcium? Why do turtle need calcium?). And this brought in lot of excitement as well lot of anxiety for the little turtle J