### q5 pesticides can harm herds > Erupe Lobun, a 40-year-old Turkana herder and father of 13 children, watches over an acacia-thorn cattle pen filled with baby goats. His home in Isiolo county was spared total devastation due to control efforts. > > But he says his goats have become sick from the pesticide used to deter locusts. Some of the goats have bloated stomachs and can’t produce enough milk “because there’s not enough pasture”. It there is no milk, there will be nothing to eat, he says. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fn7btjrvsv2464as62q08xf8) - [[Kenyan Pastoralists Impacted by Locust Swarms by Georgina Smith#q5 pesticides can harm herds|View in Vault]]