A painful loss of our Kitten, determining the cause of death and proper care of farm animals.

It is another bright and beautiful new day and we are happy to see the light of the new day. I slept past my bed time for the first time this week and you can imagine how exhausted I am currently.

Yesterday we were at the farm to pull out all the remains of our okro plants since they were no longer producing anything but just occupying the space here. We are limited on farming space and rather than keep one farm idle for such a long time we would be transforming this space and put it to better use. The land here is fertile and its better off if we make adequate use of it while the rains are still here, planting, harvesting and replanting whatever we can on this part.

There are not many farmable land here, real estate is taking over almost every fertile ground, people are building newer houses on a daily basis and they often care not if a land is better used for farming or building a house upon. It's difficult to explore more farmable lands into the forest due to safety concerns hence we continue to turn over the little available farming spaces we have.

From there we got back home only to realize that we have lost a kitten.
About 6weeks ago from now their mother rabbh has borne these 4kittens for us and they have been healthy ever since. They have not been disturbed by anything and there was no sign of weakness.

Loosing the kitten now is not the challenge, determine the cause of death is a problem. Once a farm animals dies, it is important to aseectain the cause of death in order to prevent further losses. One has to know if it is their food or water that is not good, if the death is due to a change in diet, a bite by a dangerouse animal or if the animal fell sick from some disease.

For poultry birds it is common to find flu, snake bite, an infection of even a change in diet.
Ascertaining the cause of death can hence be used to prevent further losses of animals.
For the kitten yesterday we have examined all its body, there was no sign of cold or animal bite, everything looked healthy on the outside. And ever since they have been born we haven't let them out of this cage, it is really difficult to determine what might have killed this one but we are watching and closely observing the rest.

We often feed them twice daily and change their water but now it's only fair to check on them more often and be more careful so as not to lose the other remaining kittens.

We are yet to know the cause of the death of this kitten and will really appreciate if anyone has an idea.