Presented by Prof. I. S. Kosgey – Egerton University
Prof Kosgey quoted U.S President Barrack Obama when he said “We must choose action over inaction; the future over the past – with courage and faith, let us meet our responsibility to our people, and to the future of our planet”, in the 2009 COP 15 Copenhagen, President Barack Obama of USA
And Kenya P.M Raila when he said “…climate crisis is on our hands. People are dying needlessly, and the prospects of worse scenarios (climate surprises) are high and grave indeed for the vulnerable states”, during the 2009 climate vulnerable forum, Maldives, Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga of Kenya
The link to goat production
- Increase in surface air temperature can lead to heat stress leading to decrease in appetite, some cases of increased gut fill arising from reduced thyroid secretion = reduced gut motility.
- Reduction or complete absence of rainfall can lead to prolonged droughts which result in feed and water scarcity and thus compromise on goat’s production and reproduction performance (e.g., milk yield, loss of body weight leading to emaciation, increased mortalities due to starvation, decreased fertility in does and reduced sexual activities in the breeding animals).
For example, depriving adapted goats water for more than 72 hrs leads to significant reduction on voluntary daily dry matter (DM) intake.
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