Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Presentation of the Ubuntu LEADER APPROACH in Durban
Last March 11th, the Ubuntu LEADER blog was presented within the programme of the meeting held in Durban with most of the CDW (Community Development Workers) of the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The meeting was organized by the COGTA (CO-Operative Governance and Traditional Affairs) and AECID/APRODEL. The event brought together more than 80 people among the proffesionals of local development.
Saturday, 05 March 2011
Thursday, 03 March 2011
Managing the goat: How to take care of a milky goat?
A milky goat needs better nutrition than regular indigenuos Nguni goats, and is not convinient at all to have them free in the bushlands because this can cause them injures in their udders.
Proper conditions to manage a single (or a couple of) milky goat are:
- It must be treated as a home goat, like a pet. Go for a walk with it, look for the best grazing twice a day. Tie it close to home under the best and shorter grass.
- Taking it for a one and a half hours walk could provide 80% of their nutrition needs. But remember, it will always need more that just grass. (as we’ll see on the videos)
- Provide it with the waste coming from garden and home: fruit peelings, leaves and, if possible, hard bread or wastes from corn. The waste that people use to feed the hens must be used for the goats (Urban people or, if the municipality gives a hand, organic market garbage will be provided as a nutritional complement every week).
- Cut branches of trees and high leaves where other rumiants cannot reach.
- You would need around 3 kg a day to feed a milk goat (near 40kg).
◦ a part from grassing (50-80%),
◦ from garden and home waste (yours or from urban garbages or from other families). (50-20%)
- You will milk the goat once or twice a day. It's better to keep away the offspring after the 3er week (the RAG will engaged on that throught a herder who collaborates with them, from 1st to 6th month, period that the goat will be pregnant).
Elements of the Home-Garden-Goat (HGG) : The Goat
Milking a goat?.
The goat is more efficient than the cow at producing milk.
1) Nguni (and Zulu) people are probably the only African population who are not taking advantages of milking goats . Namibian, Tanzanian, Chad, Mauritania... all around Africa there are people milking goats. The most significant goat races are Namibian and Nubian... the Nguni goat race has lost that potencial.
- In comparison with cow’s milk, the milk from a goat is more diggestive and largely recomended to elders and baby children.
- The goat milk molecule is smaller, like human milk, unlike larger cow milk molecule that can cause problems in small or weak digestive systems.
- It has 13% more calcium and 50% more vitamins. It has even more fat and proteins.
- The goat produces more milk per animal/Kg and per Food/Kg than any other cattle animal.
It is for the reasons above that using milk goats is the most convenient way to improve nutritional conditions in vulnerable families with special needs in rural areas.
We recomend you the next sources/links in order to get further information:
Elements of the Home-Garden-Goat (HGG) : The Garden
This is the spatial dsitribution of the model of Vegetable Garden we are proposing to create in our Home.
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