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Dirty Water is Dangerous
Dirty water is dangerous. People make water dirty by urinating or defecating near ponds, wells, and rivers. Every year many people die from diseases spread by dirty water. Even if water looks clean, it may not be. It can contain harmful germs that are too small to see. These germs can cause diarrhea, dysentery, cholera,…
A Fodder Hedge Provides Feed for Cattle in the Dry Season
The dry season can be hard on cattle – and their owners. Animals may lose weight because they don’t get enough good feed. If your cattle lose weight in the dry season, it will take much longer to raise them to market size. You lose both time and money. Some farmers have a way to…
Chickens Eat Ticks on Cattle
Save and edit this resource as a Word document Characters Bessy, a dairy cow Lulu, a chicken Narrator Narrator: It’s a pleasant morning in Cowtown. The sun is shining and the grass is sweet. But Bessy the cow is not happy. Let’s listen as she complains to her friend Lulu the chicken. SOUND EFFECTS CHICKEN…
A House to Keep Chickens Healthy
When you are building the house make sure that the birds will have enough space. You don’t want to crowd them. If you have 25 birds the chicken house should be about 15 metres long and 10 metres wide. So now you have a chicken house. But the birds can’t stay in the house all…
Alternative Feeds for Poultry and Pigs
If you keep chickens or ducks or pigs, getting enough feed can sometimes be a challenge. There may be a shortage of feed in your country. Or it may simply be that animal feed is too expensive to buy. So you have to find some different, cheaper feeds. Today we have suggestions for alternative feeds…
Treat Animal Diseases with Medicinal Plants
Many people know that plants can be used to treat human illnesses. But did you know that medicinal plants can also be used to cure animals? There may be plants growing in your own garden or by the roadside that can be used to care for sick livestock. Wounds, burns, stomach problems, and many other…
A Farmer Practices Zero Grazing
Which is better? One healthy cow or five skinny, sick cows? Many farmers think that it is better to put more work into keeping one animal well-fed and healthy than to keep a number of animals that fend for themselves. They are learning that allowing animals to graze together in a common area does not…
The Cow that Reunited a Family
Cheo Dora Neba is a farmer. She grows maize, corn, and beans. She lives in the village of Bambui in the country of Cameroon. The people in her village call her Dora. For many years Dora worked hard but it was a struggle to survive and feed her family. Her husband moved away to another…
Livestock and the Natural Environment
Is livestock good or bad for the land and the natural environment? Are there ways that livestock can benefit trees and soils? These are the questions I’d like to discuss with you today. Let’s start by considering the behaviour of goats. When I say the word “goat”, what comes into your mind? Of course your…
The Beekeepers of Shewula
Building beehives and trap boxes The first challenge of the project was to find and collect some bees. The beekeepers began by building trap boxes. A trap box is a simple wooden box — it looks like a small crate. It is used to trap bees in the wild. Then they spread propolis, a sticky…