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It's hot ! If Météo France only classified two departments in orange heat wave alert (Drome and Ardèche), France still records high temperatures everywhere on the territory. So much so that educational farms have decided to move their animals, because animals are also sensitive to heat.
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A swimming pool for the pigs, the meadow for the sheep
The sheepfold of Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the Hauts-de-Seine, which has adapted: sheep, ewes and goats have settled in a meadow, one kilometer from their urban farm. A need to find a little freshness, in the shade of the trees, and the animals resist well, tells the microphone of Europe 1 Cécile, who works on the farm. “They take advantage of the shade, just to keep cool. We also regularly change the water so that they have fresh water, ”she explains.
For the past few days, the farm enclosures have all been empty. All? Only the pigs are still present, and benefit from a small “swimming pool” which has been installed so that they too can cool off.
Go out only in the morning or late at night
Rather than the farm, the rabbits were placed in a large room, which has a temperature of around 24 degrees. To avoid the heat, Jennifer closed windows and shutters. “Their hair is a hair that is made entirely of down, so there is a lot of it,” which can be hard to bear, she explains.
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To relieve them, it is brushing and grooming, regularly. “We can even go as far as the mower”. For their well-being, rabbits still go outside, but only very early in the morning or very late at night, when temperatures are still pleasant.