The Sunday Mail
Tanatswa Dzimano and Deron Chida Littlerock International School
We, Littlerock International School Students, recently went on an educational tour to the CG Jennings farm. The farm is named after the owner Mrs Muchingami. The farm started in 1894. It has a huge generator that controls all the electrical equipment on the farm.
The CG Jennings farm we went to had some crops and chickens. It provides chickens for Irvines. It transports its chicken at night to avoid strokes and heart attacks.
They have a coal heating machine for the chicken and a gas one too. They also have an irrigation system called central pivot and drip irrigation. They have a tank where they store their water on the farm.
The CG Jennings group has three farms; one is South Africa and two in Zimbabwe. The one in Zimbabwe, in Ruwa, has Jersey cattle.
Their motto has four key words represented by the abbreviation RIPE which stands for Respect Integrity Pioneering and Excellence. CG Jennings supply Irvine’s with their chicken. You can check at the back of your Irvine’s chicken.
The owner never thought of becoming a farmer but she had it in her as a hidden talent and that is what she turned to do after all. Life is not what you always want it to turn out and be like. The students who went for the trip were taught not to be lazy.
We learned how to disinfect vehicles and people that come to the farm to avoid transmitting diseases to animals.
We also learned the importance of hard work. Although the woman is about 50 she is fit. We also learned about responsibility and teamwork. We also learned that success demands a definite aim. We learned that continuous self-development is important because we are living in a dynamic economic environment so one needs to be up to date.
We also learnt the importance of little things;
Every cent that comes in, counts.
If one worker is not faithful the whole system is ruined.
We as the secondary school learnt that hard work pays. We also learnt that one doesn’t always know what they will end up being in life. We also learnt the type of irrigation and how you first irrigate before you apply chemicals on your crops.
We also saw some crippled chickens. We were also told how a chicken behaves when it is feeling hot or cold. When it is feeling hot, it opens its mouth and when it’s feeling cold its wings are raised.
We also learned that a broiler mother starts hatching eggs at 18 weeks until 70 weeks of the day of hatch. They are then slaughtered although they need more time to be cooked. In winter before the chicks are brought to a place the room is preheated for two days and then in summer the room is preheated for a day.
It was a most exciting and educational tour.
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