The picture I posted of my "new neighbors" on face book got over 50 likes. Amazing. The sad news is that the dry season is very hard on farm animals. Swine fever has swept Kakoba. I understand that it is spread by birds. At the time of this picture we had these three pigs and ten piglets and three that were set aside for our table. I called them Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. So that is a total of 16 pigs. We now have 5. The older and larger of the pigs died first. Those are them pictured above. The deaths happened so quickly that we could not do anything. A near-by farmer lost half of his herd- 100 pigs! On top of the dying pigs our milk cow was overdue. When the vet checked her and gave her an injection to ease labor she keeled over and died. Just like that. The calf was dead in side of here. The rains have begun so that is some good news.
Sorry to read your loss. We don't know how blessed we are to have a lot of the meds available to us for all our livestock. Glad to hear you are into your rainy season. How warm did it get there? A long with the rain will it cool off also? Please stay well. Pax
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