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
... Young calves are permitted to sleep at night with their 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 They are placed in their mothers ' pens between 9.30 p.m. and 10.00 p.m. and are withdrawn in the morning between 6.30 a.m. and 7.00 a.m. This ...
... Young calves are permitted to sleep at night with their 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 They are placed in their mothers ' pens between 9.30 p.m. and 10.00 p.m. and are withdrawn in the morning between 6.30 a.m. and 7.00 a.m. This ...
Page 101
... young calves but not the old calves are suckled then . However , in some instances the old calves join their mothers in grazing . Cattle leave for grazing between 7.30 a.m. and 8.00 a.m. Where the cattle are few and labour scarce they ...
... young calves but not the old calves are suckled then . However , in some instances the old calves join their mothers in grazing . Cattle leave for grazing between 7.30 a.m. and 8.00 a.m. Where the cattle are few and labour scarce they ...
Page 128
... calves ( Maro hi deyahe wawen ) , old male calves ( maro hi labe wawen ) , young female calves ( maro hi deyahe nunuchal ) and young male calves ( maro hi labe nunuchal ) Table 9.3 gives the maturity categories of 1,674 head of ...
... calves ( Maro hi deyahe wawen ) , old male calves ( maro hi labe wawen ) , young female calves ( maro hi deyahe nunuchal ) and young male calves ( maro hi labe nunuchal ) Table 9.3 gives the maturity categories of 1,674 head of ...
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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