What to do when your animal is electrocuted

Rongai Sub County Veterinary Officer Peter Ngugi checks on the dentition of one of the cows. [Kennedy Gachuhi, Standard]

Dear daktari, I keep diary animals in the outskirts of Meru town. To ease the operations of my chuff cutter and milking early in the morning I have installed electricity in my small farm. One morning when my farm hand went out to milk the cows, he found one of the cows unconscious on the ground. When I was called, I tried pulling the animal up and it later stood, but to our surprise we found it had chewed the electric wire and had a burn mark on the lips. We called in a Vet who said it was a case of electrocution. I had never thought animals can be electrocuted. [Joseph Thuranira, Meru county]