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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... cow allows for one year gestation and two years suckling / milking before the next pregnancy . Cows make up 43.6 % of cattle herds . Cows and heifers constitute 56 % of the bovine herds . Calving rates for the year of study were 29.8 ...
... cow allows for one year gestation and two years suckling / milking before the next pregnancy . Cows make up 43.6 % of cattle herds . Cows and heifers constitute 56 % of the bovine herds . Calving rates for the year of study were 29.8 ...
Page 223
... cows and heifers normally has two breeding bulls ( cf Chapter 9 , Section D ( i ) ) . Females give birth for the first time when they are three or four years old . Cows give birth to 9 10 calves in a lifetime . In rare cases a cow ...
... cows and heifers normally has two breeding bulls ( cf Chapter 9 , Section D ( i ) ) . Females give birth for the first time when they are three or four years old . Cows give birth to 9 10 calves in a lifetime . In rare cases a cow ...
Page 259
... cow / heifer per annum or one calf per cow / heifer every three years . A three - year cycle for a camel cow allows for one year gestation and two years suckling / milking before the next pregnancy . Bovine cows make up 36.5 % of cattle ...
... cow / heifer per annum or one calf per cow / heifer every three years . A three - year cycle for a camel cow allows for one year gestation and two years suckling / milking before the next pregnancy . Bovine cows make up 36.5 % of cattle ...
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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