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On the pages of the official Syrian newspaper, Tishreen,
a reportage on the threat to the livestock has been recently published,
in which Syrian officials have been called upon to exclude the livestock from the conflict,
and to allow animal feed to reach the countryside
That might be the first official acknowledgment
of the siege imposed by the regime on the two Ghoutas,
whereas the photos of these dead cows on the roads,
are the result of the security forces' refusal of all these calls.
Cows are the most affected amongst the livestock by the lack of feed,
as bony protrusions start to appear on their bodies,
and this is causing them a slow painful death
“We have not milked a drop of milk for months as there has been no hay,
Nothing at all
They are just eating dry corn and grass,
and today one kilo of fed costs 180 SP and one kilo of hay costs 120 SP
and the cow that used to be sold for 150 thousand SP is sold for 50 thousand SP today,
and its body has nothing but bones
The cows of the Ghouta are eating the remainder of this grass and corn,
and most of their owners were forced to sell them to the butchers,
not to mention the difficulty of marketing their products under the siege
The cows on Abu Yaseen’s farm might look better than others,
as he has allocated most of his land to grow whatever they could feed on,
but he says that he was forced to sell more than half of his cows at low prices
to buy hay to rescue the remainder of his cattle.
The two Ghoutas of Damascus contain fifth the livestock in Syria,
and the random shelling,
as well as the chemical weapons massacre,
have lead to the death of many of it,
and the siege threatens the remainder of death
Damascus’s name has been attached to its Ghouta as the main source of animal products,
but the siege today imposes a new equation,
where the prices of these products soar in Damascus,
while the livestock here is endangered.
Mahmoud Al Zaibaq, Al Jazeera, Damascus’s Ghouta.