We did send a cargo of day old chicks once on a Tarom IL18 I guess thats close! We used to see the Aviogenex, Balkan and Aeroflot 134s at STN. The amazing thing with the TU134 was if it was performing an empty positioning flight without piling on loads of bagged ballast which had to be paid for it was impossible to trim the aircraft on the loadsheet, as they never wanted to pay for the ballast they never took any, so we had to point out this non trim situation to the crews at the time, they just used to shrug their shoulders and sign anyway and then departed, sans ballast! However they all got to their intended destinations!