City assures all sacrificial animals free from anthrax

After recently running examinations on animals to be slaughtered on the Islamic Day of Sacrifice, Idul Adha, the Jakarta Animal Husbandry Agency assures that all animals in the city were free from anthrax.

“Apart from performing physical examinations, we also took blood samples from the animals. The samples showed that they were all free from anthrax,” agency chief Ipih Ruyani said Friday, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

She added, however, that there were a number of goats and cows not old enough for slaughter. In East Jakarta, for instance, there were 36 cows, 58 goats and one buffalo that were considered too young to be slaughtered.

She said that as of Nov. 2, 62,801 animals had been brought to Jakarta, consisting of 10,796 cows, 964 buffaloes, 47,618 goats and 3,450 sheep. The agency has also recorded 964 animal shelters in the city.

Ipih said that the agency would monitor the animals through the celebration day on Nov. 6.

“To date we have continued with examinations. We will also perform inspections at slaughter spots,” she said.