DongusEddy
In the Brooder
- Nov 3, 2018
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I am a missionary working in West Africa--hot, usually dry, dusty, poor, and most recently a target of Jihadists. We work with marginalized women--widows, abandoned and divorced wives, and unmarried. We teach them skills to allow them to earn enough to live--sewing by hand and machine, making crafts and gifts, and soap making. We also provide nutrition services to people caring for orphans or women who have been unsuccessful in nursing their babies. We are feeding 50-babies at present.
In a land where malnutrition affects the majority we seek to improve a nursing mother's nutrition and ability to nurse by raising Moringa trees and making nutritious powder from the leaves. (It's worth reading up on the benefits of Moringa if you are unfamiliar.) We have started raising ISA Browns for eggs with which we hope to further improve maternal nutrition.
The girls appear happy in their new home in a 30-foot by 20-foot fenced run in a 4,500 sq. ft. walled property in which they will eventually be able to range. ISA Browns are supposed to be prodigious egg layers. With a full complement of 24-hens (no cocks for now) we hope to share eggs to the benefit of mothers and our small staff.
This will be a voyage of discovery for all of us. The challenge of doing it in Africa away from the comfort, convenience, and dependability of conditions in the States will present its own challenges, sort of like Ginger Rogers who said all she had to do is what Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in heels.
In a land where malnutrition affects the majority we seek to improve a nursing mother's nutrition and ability to nurse by raising Moringa trees and making nutritious powder from the leaves. (It's worth reading up on the benefits of Moringa if you are unfamiliar.) We have started raising ISA Browns for eggs with which we hope to further improve maternal nutrition.
The girls appear happy in their new home in a 30-foot by 20-foot fenced run in a 4,500 sq. ft. walled property in which they will eventually be able to range. ISA Browns are supposed to be prodigious egg layers. With a full complement of 24-hens (no cocks for now) we hope to share eggs to the benefit of mothers and our small staff.
This will be a voyage of discovery for all of us. The challenge of doing it in Africa away from the comfort, convenience, and dependability of conditions in the States will present its own challenges, sort of like Ginger Rogers who said all she had to do is what Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in heels.
to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC! Best wishes on your endeavors.
