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October 06, 2008

Drought-ic action: 'Goat 'condoms' save Kenyan herds' (via BBC)

African farmers don't want to add to their livestock in time of drought.
So "Maasai herdsmen in Kenya have turned to an age-old contraceptive device, the "olor", to protect their precious goat herds from an ongoing drought" writes Ruth Nesoba (BBC News, Nairobi) in Goat 'condoms' save Kenyan herds.

As another way to control when goats give birth, they separate males and females in two herds.

The piece quotes Peter Ndirangu, livestock officer as saying that if the goats give birth "during harsh conditions like now, the mothers - the does - are going to be very weak, they're not going to feed their young ones properly".

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