Red Rocks Animal Welfare

Farm animals suffer from different diseases due to lack of vaccines and proper treatment. Some infectious diseases such as brucellosis and tuberculosis are not well managed, and this leads to losses and low production by the farmers. The veterinary without borders program under the red rock initiative are however handy in providing vet care services, as well as ensuring due diligence in the quality of animals and animal products put on the market for human consumption. The inadequate transport of farm animals is a challenge. Animals are overloaded on the trucks, pigs transported on bicycles, chicken bundled on motorcycles, and many other unfair acts livestock are subjected. These lead to stress, bruises, injuries, suffocation, heart failure, sunburn, bloat, dehydration, exhaustion, and disease transmission. All those mistreatments amount to animal cruelty, even death. As long as transport is unavoidable, all persons involved have the responsibility to reduce stress and discomfort to bare minimum levels. Basically, management before transport, during transportation and planning a journey We sensitize farmers on what can be done to create adequate acceptable space for animal transfers and what animal fitness tests can be carried out before travel which encourages transportation vehicles and transport practitioners to undergo quality assurance tests. Our program thus is geared towards improving the animal welfare sector and generating income for poor and vulnerable households through supporting small-scale dairy activities in Kinigi including milk and fodder, production of improved livestock for nutrition The animal waste is recycled to produce biogas for home use, a key initiative in substituting wood fuel. This is aimed at immensely reducing the depletion of the environmental cover for fuel. The waste is also a source of compost manure, used for subsistence agriculture. we welcome other interested stakeholders to partner with us in creating sustainable consumption and production