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 mistreatment 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