{"id":182925,"date":"2024-10-20T12:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T10:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-choosing-the-best-goat-housing-balancing-safety-comfort-and-cost\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T12:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T10:31:20","slug":"zimbabwe-choosing-the-best-goat-housing-balancing-safety-comfort-and-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-choosing-the-best-goat-housing-balancing-safety-comfort-and-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Choosing the Best Goat Housing . . . Balancing Safety, Comfort and Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Somewhere in the rugged and picturesque village of Nyamaropa, Nyanga, nestled in the heart of Zimbabwe&#8217;s Eastern Highlands, old Saunyama sits with a faraway look in his eyes as he recalls a fateful day that still haunts him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">It was the day he lost half his valued goat herd to a ravenous and marauding hyena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;It was a painful lesson,&#8221; he says, his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410180536.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in the rugged and picturesque village of Nyamaropa, Nyanga, nestled in the heart of Zimbabwe&#8217;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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,21971,23616,31080,6629,27124,8522,257,4672,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-182925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-balancing","tag-choosing","tag-comfort","tag-cost","tag-goat","tag-housing","tag-news","tag-safety","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}