Nous avons commencé d'éléver les poulets dès que le début, mais ils étaitent "indisciplinés" et ont bouffé nos légumes. Dés que les tomates étaitent prêts, les premiers à les manger, c'était les poulets. Ainsi, nous essayons de les discipliner en les habituant à leur jardin et leur maison. Là, ils sont aussi mieux protégé contre des prédateurs de l'air ou du sol, les serpents. Les grillages sont emboîtés dans le beton du soubassement pour les empêcher d'entrer dans le jardin. Et le lieu du jardin était choisi comme il y a suffisamment des arbres du terrain qui empêchent les faucons de descendre dans leur chasse.
Livestock
Livestock - so many synergies with agriculture, and so many conflicts to handle in the dry season, when the cabbage has been growing sweet and the pasture is no more interesting. Yet, we need our livestock - above all for the natural manure. But they also keep vegetation at a controlable height on those parts of our land, where we do not engage in agricultre. Important task particularly regarding the bushfire season.
Cattle
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When they arrive, those cattle are often quite meagre. In part this is due to their traveling from where we bought them and the conditions of transport. But as soon as they have passed some time on the pasture of our plantation, they (re-)take their fine well-nourished shape.
Yet we had to make the experience that some cows come with an invisible burden, which canbecome fatal for them: the plastic which they found while grazing during the time with the original owners, when they did not pay attention if they were eating plastic waste outside. We had such a case of one of our cows: she still had a calf during her time with us, but after some months she lost so much weight and despite all our efforts to feed her well died.
The examination after her death showed that her stomach had accumulated so much plastic bags that she could no more digest what she was eating on our pasture.
In the meantime (September 2026), we have 18 cattle, most of the our own, but also some "guests" sinceone of our cattle herder keeps the to animals, which he got from his former job, among our cattle; one of them we can use to plough our fields. Also our partner in Kébali did send us some of his cattle and sheep: on the one side, they have good living conditions here, on the other side (our side) we can profit from the additional manure for our fields.
Increasing the herd will happen now mostly by reproduction directly on our plantation (reducing the risk of getting cows with a plastic-stomachs).
This young bull and his two sisters (below) are the newest addition (July and August 2026) to the herd, as well as the young lamb.
Yet sometimes we buy also in villages, particularly sheep, which necessitates an interim phase in our garden in Moriadi, to insure that they do not bring any illness with them.
Thus, the sheep below is being first treated and vaccinated - and strengthened with our fodder.
Our sheep
Slowly but sure the number of sheeps grows. At the moment (September 2026) we have 20 sheeps and lambs.
The sheepfold, which we have constructed, can accomodate ub to 100 sheep - and it is devided into the "Kindergarten" for the mothers with their lambs and the general sheepfold, where the others and particularly the rams are.
This separation is necessary, since the sometimes robust rivalries between the rams, when the they want to redefine their hierarchy, can entail injuries with the lambs.
A big number of sheep will allow us to "harvest" enough of their manure particularly for our composting. But selling some animals - especially during times for fest sacrifices - can create some income facilitating to finance the work on the plantation.
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