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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Countryside. Part 2. A sculpture made of frozen manure.




The symbol of the year 2013 is SNAKE...
This snake is made of frozen cow manure ... 400 kilograms of cow manure were used for it...


Most of families in villages keep cows... Yakutian livestock got used to difficult Arctic conditions... It is very hardy and unpretentious...










Livestock is pastured to a watering place in ice-hole even it is -50C' outdoors...  







Cousins near the ice-hole... 


In winter cows are kept in "hoton" (cowshed) which is not heated, but covered hermetically with cow manure...



Hoton outside



Hoton inside

Length of cow intestine is more than 52 m... 1 cow consumes 2 tons of hay for a winter season... Hay is kept near hoton... 







 A hay in a yard





  Cow is breadwinner of a family... 



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