Nairobi, Nov. 15 -- I woke up last Tuesday to a message from my farm manager that no livestock telephone farmer worth their Bata gumboots ever wants to receive: "Mwai is not performing. All the ewes he has been placed with are not pregnant. Yesterday we left him in a pen with Mutindi who is on heat. He did not even try."

The performance under review is that of my latest Dorper ram acquired last year at an eye-watering price for the purposes of breeding. I sent the note to the breeder from whom I had bought Mwai and several other breeding animals.

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