Bothar Bothar is an Irish programme. We give money to this charity. It helps pay for cows and goats to go to Africa. It helps a lot of families.

Bothar The animals are delivered by cargo planes or trucks. Irish Cows give 20 litres of milk a day. African cows only give one litre. That is a very big margin.

Bothar An Irish goat gives up to 5 litres of milk a day. An African goat would only give a quarter of a litre a day.

Bothar The animals are trained well before being flown off to Africa. The families go into training for a few months to learn how to take care of an animal.

Bothar We also give sheep and chickens. We give families 50 chicks at once. Sheep are given to people in cooler mountainous countries.

Bothar The people we give animals to have to have a secure pen or stable to keep the animal in. It needs to have an exercise and a milking area.

Bothar A goat pen needs to be raised off the ground and it needs to have little cracks for the waste to fall through. This can be used as fertilizer for the crops.

Bothar Cows are to be fed a crop called elephant grass. It is like regular grass except it grows up instead of out. It has all the nutrients a cow needs.

Bothar Since all cows given are in calf if a boy calf is born you keep it, if a girl calf is born you give it to another well trained family. If the cow keeps producing male you sell them to buy a girl calf and then you give the calf to the family.

Bothar. Cows are given to a big family. Goats are give to a medium family. Chickens are given to a small family. Sheep are given to a medium family.