He is well off when he has three or four head of cattle and a dozen sheep and goats.

There is one instance where a man had as many as forty head of cattle, but this was a rare exception.

They rarely keep horses, and never pigs, which destroy their cornfields; and are believed, besides, to be Spaniards (_Gachupines_).

Pork, though sometimes eaten, is never sacrificed.

No tame turkeys are kept, but occasionally the people have some hens, and in rare cases a family may keep a turtle dove or a tame quail.