AGRICULTURAL NEWS - A total of 78 donkeys have been euthanised over a four month period at what would have been Zimbabwe’s first abattoir for these animals, after inspectors found that they were either ill or badly injured.
Officials of the Zimbabwe SPCA, Veterinarians for Animal Welfare Zimbabwe (VAWZ), and the Department of Livestock and Veterinary Services (DLVS), who inspected the animals at a feedlot in Bulawayo between October 2017 and January this year, had given authorisation for the animals to be put down.
The abattoir was supposed to start operating in October 2017 after Zimbabwean company, Battlefront Investments, had invested US$150 000 (R1,8 million) in establishing it.
Further funds were invested in buying 200 donkeys from various parts of the country.
