About Hay Dairies Pte Ltd

Hay Dairies is a small goat farm, with about 800 goats of mixed breed, producing milk for sale. The farm uses the latest milking, pasteurising, homogenising and bottling machines to produce very fresh goat's milk, which it sells directly to customers.

Hay Dairies serves a niche market in Singapore, providing an alternative to those who are allergic to cow's milk. The farm also welcome visits and excursions.

In 1920, Mr Hay Yak Tang came to Singapore at the age of 16 as a teacher of the Teochew language. Finding little interest in his profession, Mr Hay became a clerk for a hatchery instead, and later started his own hatchery.

Subsequently, he bought a 16-acre plantation in Punggol and started Yak Seng Hay Farm to rear ducks, chickens and some pigs, From there, he bred his own chickens as layers, and sold chicks from his own farm.

By the 1970, he had switched to pig farming. Breeders were imported from the US, and as the business expanded, eight of his eleven sons were in the day-to-day operations. In the next 10 years, Hay's farm held 2,000 pigs had over 30 workers, and become one of the biggest suppliers of pork to the local market.

In the early 80s, pig farming was phased out in Singapore, With help from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority - AVA(formerly known as the Primary Production Department - PPD), Hay Dairies developed goat farming as an alternative livelihood. The AVA gave the Hays contacts in the US, and with the import of the first batch of Alpine, Nubian, Toggenburg and Saanen goats, on the 22 December 1988, the Hay become goat farmers.