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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... ewes is much less in dry conditions than in more favourable conditions . This is because the total milk output is lower and in the case of ewes with young lambs a higher percentage of milk is reserved for the young animals . There is ...
... ewes is much less in dry conditions than in more favourable conditions . This is because the total milk output is lower and in the case of ewes with young lambs a higher percentage of milk is reserved for the young animals . There is ...
Page 131
... ewes would produce 10,156 lambs . This gives an annual rate of 1.04 lambs per ewe . - Does ( which have given birth ) form 48.1 % and kids 26.6 % of goat herds ( Table 9.6 ) . Put differently , 7,867 does produce 4,337 kids in a six ...
... ewes would produce 10,156 lambs . This gives an annual rate of 1.04 lambs per ewe . - Does ( which have given birth ) form 48.1 % and kids 26.6 % of goat herds ( Table 9.6 ) . Put differently , 7,867 does produce 4,337 kids in a six ...
Page 234
... ewes with young lambs are separated from their lambs . These lambs had been with their mothers throughout the night . The dams are not milked . Ewes with older lambs are milked in the morning and the lambs are allowed to join them in ...
... ewes with young lambs are separated from their lambs . These lambs had been with their mothers throughout the night . The dams are not milked . Ewes with older lambs are milked in the morning and the lambs are allowed to join them in ...
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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