University opens farm to train veterinary students giving Hong Kong taste of local dairy for first time in 2 decades
- City University’s facility expects to produce its own milk and ice cream next year
- Veterinary students will get hands-on experience that was not possible before, farm manager says
Hong Kong’s first new dairy farm in two decades will be a teaching and learning facility for local veterinary students and expects to produce its own milk and ice cream next year after opening on Wednesday.
The Tai Po farm is operated by City University (CityU) and houses 24 Jersey cows, a British Channel Islands breed of small dairy cattle flown in from Australia in September.
“It’s an amazing achievement just having a dairy farm here in Hong Kong and restarting dairying in Hong Kong after two decades,” said Dr Eryl Done, farm manager of CityU’s Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences.
“It affords our veterinary students hands-on practical experience with these cows. Something that they have never been able to do in Hong Kong before so the exciting part is the educational opportunities it gives to veterinary students.”
The farm features various facilities such as barns for cows and calves, feeding tables, milking machines and a room for processing milk.
