Dear Daktari, I read your article on why our Zebu cattle is diminishing in size with a lot of interest. I am an indigenous cattle breeds fan, although I have exotic crosses the allure of our local ...

The Simmental or Swiss Fleckvieh is reddish in colour with white markings, and is kept for milk and meat. There he was: The gorgeous beast — the well toned skin is wine red, it is neatly horned and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ZELIPHA KIROBI, DESMOND TIRO and EVELYNE MUSAMBI KAJIADO, Kenya (AP) — The blood, milk and meat of cattle have long been staple foods for Maasai ...

In the Kenyan savanna, lions and livestock essentially live in shifts: Cattle graze during the day and are enclosed at night ...

(Nairobi, Kenya, September 28, 2020)--Scientists announced today the discovery of a new set of detailed genetic markers and information in African cattle that are associated with valuable traits, such ...

In many regions of the world, populations of large mammalian herbivores have been displaced by cattle breeding, for example in Kenya the hippos by large herds of cattle. This can change aquatic ...

Cattle herds are driving lions and other wildlife away from their habitats in Kenya, even though herders enclose their livestock at night when predators are most active. A new study from Aarhus ...