Reports on a study carried out by ILCA in Kenya, on the Maasai pastoral system with ref. to providing milk primarily for calves & secondly for human subsistence. Notes the systems better level of productivity as compared to other pastoral systems in Africa due to its low calf mortality, better ca...
Semenye, P.P.
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Leeuw, P.N. de
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[Milk for calves or man in a Maasai pastoral system in East Africa]
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Milk for calves or man in a Maasai pastoral system in East Africa
Discusses interrelationships among population growth, cultural values and range management in pastoralist systems of production taking the case of the Maasai in Kenya.
The grazing behaviour of Maasai cattle was influenced by season, area and grazing orbit. In a grazing day the cattle spent 1, 8, 14, 15 and 62 percent of their time drinking, ruminating, resting, walking and grazing respectively. The mean length of the grazing day of Maasai cattle is defined, as ...