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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Page 100
... mothers for eight to nine hours . They are placed in their mothers ' pens between 9.30 p.m. and 10.00 p.m. and are withdrawn in the morning between 6.30 a.m. and 7.00 a.m. This night arrangement facilitates night suckling . The same mothers ...
... mothers for eight to nine hours . They are placed in their mothers ' pens between 9.30 p.m. and 10.00 p.m. and are withdrawn in the morning between 6.30 a.m. and 7.00 a.m. This night arrangement facilitates night suckling . The same mothers ...
Page 101
... mothers at night . Older lambs and kids of all ages sleep separately from their mothers . Milking takes place between 7.00 a.m. and 7.30 a.m. Older kids and lambs are not suckled then but are allowed to join their mothers when they ...
... mothers at night . Older lambs and kids of all ages sleep separately from their mothers . Milking takes place between 7.00 a.m. and 7.30 a.m. Older kids and lambs are not suckled then but are allowed to join their mothers when they ...
Page 102
... mothers at night time . Normally in wet conditions calves are only permitted to spend periods of 15 to 60 minutes with their mothers around midnight . Adult camels return from grazing a little later , usually between 7.30p.m. and 8.00 ...
... mothers at night time . Normally in wet conditions calves are only permitted to spend periods of 15 to 60 minutes with their mothers around midnight . Adult camels return from grazing a little later , usually between 7.30p.m. and 8.00 ...
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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