SRE, Ethiopian breed
- Hoor or Hur breed is good for milk (7–10 liter/day)
- Ayden breed (multi-purpose breed)
- Gheelab (riding, transportation, and work)
- Agawayn is good for milk 4 to 7 kg/day (longer lactation)
- Layro (multi-purpose breed with a milk average of 2-4 kg per day
More than 90% of camels are in the pastoral system and the rest the semi-intensive (mainly for milk in the peri-urban regions).
Drought and Disease Tolerance Score (DDTS)
I have worked with traditional livestock breeds in different parts of the world, especially the livestock cradle (Balochistan province of Pakistan). Have documented native livestock breeds based on their qualitative traits such as drought & disease tolerance (DDT), drought & disease tolerance compensatory ability score (DDCS), consumer demand, liveability/survivability, adaptability, mothering ability, etc. The most important and practical qualitative traits are given a score (1-5) as 1 is the lowest/weakest and 5 is the highest/strongest.
Mauritanian camels
There are two “breeds” (?), rather varieties as nobody has studied them: those in the East, where there is some vegetation, and they are tall and heavier than those in the West where the land is more arid and salty. Here they are short and light. People here say that those camels in the East eat too much and need a lot of water, while the Western camels are much more thrifty. Even so, the commercial milk sellers buy camels from the East and feed them and water them here, either together with their small camels if they are camel-owning families, or on their own if they are just business people.
In extensive conditions, nobody knows how much milk the camels yield, since practically all the milk is left for the calf, and growing calves to sell is more important than drinking milk, particularly when there is no alternative feed. In the intensive milking-for-selling conditions close to towns, the camels that get pasture plus feed and enough water yield an average of 3 liters per 24 hours In our experience; It is very hard to get information from herders because they are afraid of the evil eye. That said, some camels yield much more than that, and in Nouakchott, they are milked three times a day and gove more. When asked how much milk a camel can actually yield (an abstract, theoretical question) they all know camels that can give 10 to 12 liters a day.
Sudani camel breeds
As a country, Sudan has reported the largest camel breeds in Africa.
Jenani, Rashaidi, Anaf, Bishari, Butana, Kabbashi, Mananish
Here is a link to an article; https://www.lrrd.cipav.org.co/lrrd23/4/isha23099.htm
