White Fulani cattle are an important beef breed of cattle throughout the area traversed by the Fulani people and beyond in the Sahel zone of Africa. They are mostly Zebu but of Sanga cattle origin. Characterized by high lyre shaped horns, they have either thoracic humps like the Zebu or humps intermediate with the cervico-thoracic humps of the ...

Fulani herdsmen or Fulani pastoralists are nomadic or semi-nomadic Fulani people whose primary occupation is raising livestock. [1] The Fulani herdsmen are largely located in the Sahel and semi-arid parts of West Africa , but due to relatively recent changes in climate patterns , many herdsmen have moved further south into the savannah and ...

2024年8月26日 · The White Fulani cattle are a beautiful breed of cattle mainly kept for meat/beef production. It is also known by some other names such as Akou, Bunaji, Fellata, White Bororo, White Kano and Yakanaji. The White Fulani cattle are an important cattle breed throughout the area conquered by the Fulani people and beyond in the Sahel zone of Africa ...

The White Fulani cattle are mainly owned by the nomadic Fulani people who occupy the belt between the Sahara and the rainforest from the west of the river Senegal to the east of Lake Chad, including parts of western Senegal, Southern Mauritania, in and around the flood plains of Niger, Chad, northern Nigeria (Kano, Zaria, Borno and Bauchi ...

White Fulani is characterized by a high degree of genetic diversity. The microsatellites have multiple alleles and may show heterozygosity frequencies of at least 70%. White Fulani cows and their F1 descendants form a common cluster, to which the bulls of …

The Red Fulani is an African breed of cattle found from Mali across Niger and northern Nigeria to Chad and Cameroon. [1] Fulani cattle in Abet, Zangon Kataf, Nigeria.

2022年12月1日 · White Fulani cattle is an indigenous breed of cattle widely distributed in the humid tropical regions of Africa and plays significant roles in meat and milk production, as well as draught purposes.

2016年12月1日 · Kachia Grazing Reserve (KGR) in northern Nigeria was home to some 10,000 Fulani pastoralists and their 40,000 cattle in June 2011. This study examines productivity and management of cattle belonging to livestock keepers within the reserve before and after a mass immigration event when 3,000 refugees moved into the reserve with their cattle to ...

The paper reviews information on the White Fulani cattle under the headings: origin, classification, distribution, population statistics, ecological settings, utility, husbandry practices, physical characteristics, special genetic characteristics, adaptive …

2011年3月3日 · This article examines the tensions between memory, identity and livelihoods in the making and transformation of cultural patrimony among Fulani cattle keepers of West Africa. Two areas of cattle breeding are examined: the Grassfields of Cameroon and …