Myagaa and his cousins combined own about 800 head of livestock including sheep, cashmere goats, cows, and camels all producing massive quantities of... well it is called "bas" in Mongolian. It is a constant struggle during the winter to collects the bas when the animals go to graze during the day and replace it with dry dirt so the animals are able to stay warm at night. Bas is also used for fuel on the stove. A great renewable resource which unfortunately does produce loads of pollution on the traditional low efficiency stoves. Aside from all this bas collection, there was herding, milking, cleaning, and cooking to be done on a daily basis.
loading up the truck with dry bas
Went to a neighbors place to collect more nicely dried bas
Stopping by the community well on the way back
Taking out ashes from the stove
Bayar still had to go get the livestock at the end of the day
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