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A farmer’s easy guide to naming livestock!

Farming in Africa is an interesting occupation. When we plough the soil with our in-born energies, we sing along to gain the psyche to finish the work. The same with how we deal with our livestock. Now, we are not the kind to give codes to animals. Codes are lifeless and boring things that are used in Europe and at the ASK Shows. Imagine a code for a cow with an ear-tag ‘AIDS16’ supposedly meaning mean Ayrshire Infant Delivered Saturday, 2016. Very insulting I dare say.

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