Project Report
| May 20, 2019
Planting forage crops
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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preparing polybags
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project providing goats to poor farming families. This reporting period, we promoted to goat raisers the planting of forage crops for the goats. Some of the raisers experienced problem sourcing grasses and sometimes this results to quarrel with neighbors and providing forage crops is an important component when one raises goats. We were able to procure from a commercial source seeds of forage crops with high protein such as indigofera, calliandra, ipil-ipil and centrosema. This will be planted in the boundaries of the farm and every now and then the branches and leaves are cut to be fed to the goats. A total of 52 farmers were provided with seeds and we train them how to raise them in polybags.
Hoping for your continuing support to this project.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Feb 15, 2019
Village goat breeding support
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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upgraded goat
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project providing goats to poor farming families. We experienced difficulty in sourcing upgraded goats that has the potential in improving the performance of the herd that we are dispersing to farmers. Improvement of goat lines is very important and urgent because native goats produce small offspring and do not produce milk at all. The years of in-breeding has resulted in this phenomenon and there is a need to improve the performance of our goats in order also to improve the benefits that will accrue to farmers. This reporting period we sourced out good upgraded goats and we were able to purchase mixed Saanen breed that is high performer. We will use this goat in order to improve the kids of our females and also improve the general performance of the goat population here.
Again thank you very much for your generosity.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Nov 19, 2018
Starting a goat production farm
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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breeding farm
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project providing goats to poor farming families here in our project areas. Feedback from our beneficiaries shows that the goats provided to them gave them multiple benefits such as meat, milk and offspring. The goats they can also easily sell during times of hardship and emergency. One of the problems met by the project is the lack of upgraded goat breeds that we can multiply for release to our beneficiaries. One of our strategies this reporting period is to start a modest goat multiplication farm where we raise and breed goats and then release the offspring to our beneficiaries. The goat breeded farm in located in Libertad municipality and we are starting with 32 goats, 27 of which are does and 5 bucks. We asked the local veterinarian to assist us in medicating and provision of vitamins to the goats as well as identifying suitable grasses high in protein that the goats can eat. Hoping that we will be successful in this effort.
Again thank you very much for your generosity.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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