02 December 2016

Merry Christmas from Uyole, Tanzania



Chiara And Gerry



Chiara, Uffe, and Marashall with the Authorities of TALIRI (Tanzanian Livestock Research Institute)


Dancing with the Wedding crew


Working hard to prepare the dissection tables 


the dissection and post mortem tend in being build 


we are ready


to work


Gryson and Kabululu aka KB


Hassan and Chiara 


at the abattoir 


slaughtering 12 pigs per day 


dissecting half the carcass in small pieces to check for Teania solium parasites 


Emanuel preparing the speciments


Rosie and Marian, meat inspectors for profession


extracting the brain 


wooow


KB and Marashall from Australia


Emmanuel is Happy


Chiara the washing lady


in the lab with Claudia from South Africa 


Post mortems with Uffe from DK


nice motorbike 


Sow meal formula


unloading the carcasses - getting ready for a long day of work


work hard 

and be happy


do you want to buy something for your trip to Morogoro?


on our way to the abattoir


beautiful mountains 


grazing?


soon time to die


various ways of transport - motorbike 


where are the animal welfare regulations?


final moments 


the pig is alive - do you think it's suffering?


poor pigs 


this is better 


than this...



oh nooo, poor pigs!



hello my friends..


working hard 


to inspect for parasites 


nice job


Gryson in action


a lot of good and safe meat 

my lovely brains 





 Pig brain research in Tanzania 


very nice pig brain 


the view from my house 


living with Gerry and KB


Preparing our Sunday lunch


In the lab 


with KB and Gryson 


centrifuging blood samples 


hello my friend


let's have a beer to celebrate friday


on our way 


to the slaughterhouse 



Che dentoni


more than 165 brains 


to inspect 


and dissect 


our car -- we  forgot to buy something 


chi é l'intruso?


Taenia solium cysticercosis 


Twittike inspecting 

for taenia cysts 


Chiara is preparing her meticulous work 


dissecting brains 


and meat


with an excellent team of hard working people 


Capacity building 


hippo-campus 


ready to be studied 


Aspettando lo stipendio 


Millions of Tanzanian Shilling 


stunning nature 


working hard 7 days a week 


never ending story


Waiting for the carcasses to be ready


inspecting fro Taenia hydatigena


Rosie in her beautiful dress 


Life pigs transported in the Bagiagi


on our way home 


Emergency dissection - sudden death due to African Swine fever 


160 kg pig 


slaughtering pigs


Furaha inspecting the meat


Liver inspection -  is it safe for human consumption?



passed carcass


Chiara in action - bleeding pigs


Frisian cows 


last moments before death 



a lot of good meat 


is prepared by these butchers 


parasites 


are fun


the post mortem team 


T. hydatigena 




spinal cord 


infected?


good old days...



skinning pigs 


inspecting the omentum 


for parasites 


selfie on our way back to the post mortem tend 


the slaughter house team 


Chiara and Franky 


Franky with new boots - a present from the muzungu


ready for a long day of dissections 


Rosie 


Hassan


Marian


infected brain


heavily infected meat


with T. solium cysts 



Greetings from the team and merry Christmas from Uyole, Tanzania