The Economics of Pastoralism in Northern Kenya: The Rendille and the GabraUnited Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 1985 - 268 pages |
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... calves that are born die . Calf mortality is attributed to diseases known as ndiss ( contagious hepatitis ) and namunya ( salmonellosis ) , diarrhoea , tick infection , and paucity of milk from the dam when conditions are dry ...
... calves that are born die . Calf mortality is attributed to diseases known as ndiss ( contagious hepatitis ) and namunya ( salmonellosis ) , diarrhoea , tick infection , and paucity of milk from the dam when conditions are dry ...
Page 100
... calves and the few older calves which are in the camp at the time . The young calves are released to graze around the main camp with minimum attention from herders between 9.50 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. The older calves are not suckled and ...
... calves and the few older calves which are in the camp at the time . The young calves are released to graze around the main camp with minimum attention from herders between 9.50 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. The older calves are not suckled and ...
Page 101
... calves are not brought to water and the old calves used local waterpoints and the journey only took a day . On watering day they left the camp at 7.00 a.m. and returned at 5.45 p.m. ( ii ) Dry season cattle herding Bovine calves do ...
... calves are not brought to water and the old calves used local waterpoints and the journey only took a day . On watering day they left the camp at 7.00 a.m. and returned at 5.45 p.m. ( ii ) Dry season cattle herding Bovine calves do ...
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70 Age Mean age categories age/sex annual areas average Balessa Balessa Ildere Barcho bridewealth brothers camel herding castrates Cattle and smallstock cattle herds Chalbi Desert Chapter clan section cows Damballa Dimtu distance Dololo dry conditions dry season ewes Female herders Figure flocks forr camps Forr smallstock Frequency Gabra goats herd structure herding units Household holdings houses Hurri Hills Indigofera IPAL Kalacha Kargi Kenya kids and lambs KILOMETRES Korr labour lactation LAG BALLAL Lake Turkana livestock main camp Male herders married Marsabit Marsabit District mature milk yields milked and suckled months mothers move NK NK NK North Horr Number of milch off-take old calves pack camels pastoralists Qarsa rains range Rendille reside satellite camps sheep sheep and goats sick animal Siginte slaughtered sold sorio species Standard deviation Symptoms Table town Treatment water points waterholes wet conditions wet seasons young calves young kids zero Total