Thread by @GeorgeMakuyana2

1. I once tried a layers hens project with 50 hens. Good project but it needs large scale to be worthwhile. But today I want to talk about the violence of these hens. They are very rerritorial and if you place a hen in a wrong cage it will suffer. Spare a thot for @JobSikhala1

2. After nursing them in separate cages, a time came to put them in the main run. Kingpins from different cages wrestled to be the roaster of the roost. It was gruesome. I would sometimes be awoken by riotings & forced to intervene. I lost 2 birds to these brawls! @stantetwas

3. I tried several approaches to break up these horrific fights. I demarcated the run, tagged the main offenders, segregated the main victims 😤 & in the end resorted to culling off; first the aggressors, new aggressors arose. Culled victims- new came. @PoliceZimbabwe

4. I was advised that these birds would always fight. It was in their nature, there would always be one or two aggressors & a few victims. It was the political order of the kraal. I just had to ignore it and let nature take its course! To be neutral. @NgarivhumeJacob @daddyhope

5. That was the law of the farm! The strong will feed on the weak & international pressure would only achieve so much. The question I had to ask was what made the strong strong & the weak weak? Without solving that puzzle, there would be no rest. #RegisterToVoteZW!