A GUIDE TO LIVE WEIGHT ESTIMATION AND BODY CONDITION SCORING OF DONKEYS

Acknowledgements The authors are grateful for the financial support given by the British Government Department for International Development, which enabled this booklet to be produced. The technical assistance of the Society for the Protection of Animal Abroad (SPANA) was very much appreciated in Morocco. The authors also thank M. Bakkoury, A. Belemlih and A. Prentis in Morocco and Mengistu Alemayehu, Mesfin Asfaw and Agajie Tesfaye in Ethiopia for their assistance in developing and testing the Guide, P.R.Lawrence for producing the nomogram, and the International Donkey Protection Trust for the finance to purchase a portable weighing machine. The photographs on pages 5 and 6 were supplied by SPANA, on page 12 by Pamela Mueller and on the remaining pages by the authors