By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director
This is a report that could almost write itself. That is, if we could pause long enough to type without laughing...
In our last report we elaborated the big plan to breed rabbits. First and foremost, for the reason that rabbits are very small and therefore very unattractive and too unruly for cattle thieves. After all, how do you herd rabbits away? Rabbits also breed fast enough to provide meat for a family, or with some planning, even livestock to sell when the appropriate festival time comes around.
So, to try something new, we bought two pair of rabbits and gave one each to the school in each village (see last project report). The pictures of the last project report were taken in October.
Nowadays we communicate mostly with text messages. It is cheap and efficient. The reports about the rabbit breeding program were unexpectedly very sedated and brief. It became apparent that something was not working.
Lucky for us one of the team members who teach building improved cookstoves and bio-charcoal making is an accomplished rabbit breeder for many years in his own backyard. We asked him for help with his expertise.
He went to both villages to inspect the cages and the rabbits. In his expert opinion the result was startling. He concluded: “It looks like the person who chose the rabbits bought one female and three males’
As this is a G rated report, we will be ending here.
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