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Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9<\/p>\n

SCENES that would break the heart of any farmer in the world greeted some livestock producers on Wednesday morning when they went to the kraals and found hundreds of their animals dead.<\/p>\n

Extraordinary cold weather that followed the good rains on Tuesday in the area of Schlip, Rietoog and Groendraai south of Rehoboth caused the death of hundreds of sheep and goats that were locked in kraals overnight. It was reported that farmers in the area of Gibeon further south and on the western extremes of the Khomas Hochland also suffered severe animal losses<\/p>\n

According to Piet Coetzee, a goat and sheep stud farmer near Groendraai, the damage to his farming operation is almost incalculable. Besides the losses in monetary value, which he estimates to be around N$600\u00a0000, the genetic material, cultivated over several years while developing his nine different Van Rooy and Damara sheep as well as his Boer Goat and Kalahari Red Goat studs are forever lost.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sight of the dead animals in the kraals broke my heart. I was happy about the 74 millimeters of rain but an ice cold wind overnight left me extremely dismayed. This is not an easy situation to deal with. I don\u2019t know if I will be able to recover from this or to even continue farming,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He said he initially counted 82 animals before driving away but he was later informed by his workers that they discovered at least 50 more dead sheep and goats.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we could do was to pick the dead animals up and to take them away to be buried. We still have to sort out how many lambs lost mothers and what we need to do to save what we could save,\u201d Coetzee said.<\/p>\n

He said many of the female animals were pregnant which increases the loss in terms of monetary value as well as genetic material for his various studs.<\/p>\n

He said some of the farmers on neighboring farms lost all of their animals.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of my neighbors are literally ruined. I don\u2019t know how they will ever be able to even continue farming. This is a disaster,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coetzee said another cold snap is expected for Wednesday evening which means that more animals could be lost.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that the farmers lost more than a thousand animals because of the extraordinary weather of the past few days.<\/p>\n

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DISASTER: Carcasses of the livestock killed by the freezing weather. _Photo Contributed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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