Travellingman reisverhalen - - Filadelfia
Day 5: Dinsdag 28 februari 2017
Filadelfia

I was awake around 7 AM. After getting up the breakfast was ready. After breakfast I was given a tour around the farm. Like many farms here it revolves around keeping livestock for meat production. They have 200 cows / cattle and 100 sheep. It is a company that passes from father to son. I was taken to the water storage and further he told me that the ground here is really too poor to grow anything. Around the farm house they grow some fruit grown for their own use and they have a couple of dairy cows also for personal use. With 600 acres (240 hectares) it is a small farm.



After the tour a lI had a look at vaccinating of the cattle. There's a virus where a quarter of livestock in Paraguay suffers from. It is transmitted by mice. Vaccination was done in a coral. At first it good not start because the injection pistol was not working, but then it went quickly.

After some relaxing it was already time for lunch. The care here is good. I wanted to do a tour of the Chaco, but it was difficult to schedule. Ultimately, it was 15:30 PM. Before that I walked around on the site and took some pictures.

Around 3:30 PM we left with my car. It had been raining, and some of the sand paths at various places had become quite muddy. First we visited a farm where animals are kept in the wild. The cows were milked and just that I could see. We also visited a place where they grow plants of which there are several in the wild here. He wanted to show me horses, but they were not there. Finally, we drove back to a farmhouse where a footpath is. It was close to dusk, and hoping to also see some wildlife. However, the only wild animals were mosquitoes and we returned soon. However, a wide variety of plants.

We then drove back to the sunset. We saw a lot of different birds.

Eventually around 8 PM and 80 kilometers more on the counter we were back at the farm. The other visitors were also just, arriving, they had been to Filadelfia. We ate in common and then some chatting. Then sleep.

Initial publication: 03 maart 2017
Last update: 19 maart 2017
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