Zimbabwe: Choosing the Best Goat Housing . . . Balancing Safety, Comfort and Cost

Somewhere in the rugged and picturesque village of Nyamaropa, Nyanga, nestled in the heart of Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands, old Saunyama sits with a faraway look in his eyes as he recalls a fateful day that still haunts him.

It was the day he lost half his valued goat herd to a ravenous and marauding hyena.

The goats had been kept in a flimsy wooden shelter that was no match and did little to keep the sharp claws and insatiable hunger of the predator at bay.

“It was a painful lesson,” he says, his…