Many of Jordan’s rural communities are too poor to buy tractors to plough and harvest their crops. Instead, they rely on real horsepower, just as their ancestors have done for thousands of years. As a result, our vets treat a lot of working animals with injuries caused by working out in the fields.
Khayla was brought to our Deir Alla clinic with badly infected wounds. Whilst ploughing a field, she had become trapped in her badly fitted and rusty harness. Our vets cleaned her wounds with antiseptic and gave her an anti-tetanus injection. We also admitted her as an inpatient in our stables to allow her to recover her strength.
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Many of Jordan’s rural communities are too poor to buy tractors to plough and harvest their crops. Instead, they rely on real horsepower, just as their ancestors have done for thousands of years. As a result, our vets treat a lot of…
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