Toronto Kids Visit Llama Farm & Dairy

On Friday the 20th of May, 44 students from Rose Valley High School and Scarlet Heights Collegiate in Toronto arrived at the Bakken dairy farm for a farm tour.  

They saw how dairy cows are milked and how the m ilk moves through a glass pipeline to the refrigeration tank where it is cooled off before it goes by refrigeration tanker to Saskatchewan where it will be processed into milk for table use.

Products made from milk are chocolate milk, skim, 1%, 2%, homo milk and cream, also sour cream, cottage cheese, various other cheeses and ice cream.

After the dairy tour was completed the students moved over to the other side of the yard to see the llamas.

The students were told that for herd health reasons the animals are sheared yearly.  They provide an abundance of soft, fine fibre that can be spun into yarn and made into garments to wear.

Anna was interested in spinning and actually in five or ten minutes had the spinning wheel spinning fibre.  Other students from Scarlet Heights Collegiate lined up, wanting their pictures taken with the llamas.