HAY Soo Kheng
Vanishing Trades,
Accession Number 001289
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 11
Total Reels
- Jesley Chua Chee Huan
Interviewer
- 05:19:08
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 11
Metadata
- 5 Jul 1991
Recording Date
- 00:30:51
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Educational background. Family background. Father worked in a hatchery at Kallang before buying the land at Ponggol in 1950s. Father took over Yak Seng Hatchery when his partners left. They reared ducks at Ponggol. Why they started chicken farming. Number of chickens kept. Reasons for switching to pig farming later on. How the children helped their father.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 11
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- 5 Jul 1991
Recording Date
- 00:30:19
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*His grandmother managed the hatchery. What they sell there. Farm workers recruited from nearby areas. Preparation of pig feed. Why they did not collect swill for pigs. Father managed farm with son's help. Why father had three wives. How fertilized and unfertilized eggs were differentiated. Artificial insemination of chickens.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 11
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- 5 Jul 1991
Recording Date
- 00:30:40
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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*His brother went to Japan to study chicken sexing. Feeding of chickens. How chickens were reared on his farm. Chickens kept for a year before being sold. Ventilation for chickens. Where they sell chickens. Brother conducted chicken sexing class for other farmers upon his return from Japan.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 11
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- 19 Jul 1991
Recording Date
- 00:31:14
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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*Started with about 200 pigs on pig farm. Different pig breeds. Constructed indoor pig pens in 1960s. Double-storey pig pens. Various stages of shifting pigs from pen to pen; reasons for doing so. How pigs are sized. Vaccination of pigs. Frequency of cleaning pigs.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 11
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- 19 Jul 1991
Recording Date
- 00:30:38
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- MP3
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*Feeding of pigs. Butchers visited the farm to select the pigs themselves. Pigs sold to butchers by pens. Why he did not want to mix pigs from different pens for sale. How weighing of pigs was done. Pig catching. How pig farmers were affected by the phasing out of pig farming. Farm workers.
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Reel/Disc 6 of 11
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- 19 Jul 1991
Recording Date
- 00:30:17
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*How and why he started fish farming. Initial problems faced. Breed fish from 2-inch baby fish. Types of fish he kept. How sizing of fish was done. Fish nets washed once a month. Mortality rate of fish. Factors affecting fish growth. Feeding of fish. Where his fish were sold. How fish buyers brought the fish ashore.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 11
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- 26 Jul 1991
Recording Date
- 00:30:45
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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*Time taken for baby fish to mature. Frequency and time spent on sizing fish. Why he gave up fish farming 2 years later. How he got rid of his fishery.Why and how he started goat farming. Modifications done to farm to accommodate goats. What he learnt during his training in United States. Started with 48 goats.
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Reel/Disc 8 of 11
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- 26 Jul 1991
Recording Date
- 00:30:48
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*Different goat breeds. Amount spent on importing goats from United States. Gestation period of goat is 5 months. Why kids are removed from mother goats after birth. Bottle feeding the kids. How and why goats are de-horned. Goat feeding. Breed goats when they are a year old. Further elaboration on pig farming - why piglets' teeth are crushed.
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Reel/Disc 9 of 11
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- 26 Jul 1991
Recording Date
- 00:31:13
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*How pigs are castrated. Reasons for removing pig's tail. Milking goats. Advantage of hand-milking. Milking procedure. Packaging his goat milk, marketing. Number of goats on his farm. Selling price of goats. Why he imports hay for his goats. Reasons for sizing goats.
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Reel/Disc 10 of 11
Metadata
- 2 Aug 1991
Recording Date
- 00:31:12
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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*Where his goat milk is sold. Business competition. His future plans. Problems of getting farm hands. Working hours. Prospects of goat farming in Singapore. Plans for his farm. Further elaboration on goat milking. Difference in attitude and lifestyle between he and his father. His farm training in New Zealand.
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