Cattle example sentences

Since they could not shift their cattle to places where pastures were available, large numbers of Maasai cattle died of starvation and disease in these years of drought.An enquiry in 1930 showed that the Maasai in Kenya possessed 720,000 cattle, 820,000 sheep and 171,000 donkeys.His eldest son Somu who is 10 years old also works as a pali to look after the cattle of the Sarpanch of the village Satpal Singh.He wrote: 'Their families live in small villages near the skirt of the woods, where they cultivate a little ground, and keep some of their cattle, selling in the towns the produce of the dairy.At times they lost their cattle and sheep and became labourers, working on fields or in small towns.How are we able to feed our huge cattle population on this pasture land and what are the consequences of it? Most of the other than the current fallow lands are either of poor quality or the cost of cultivation of such land is very high.Cattle husbandry is done for two purposes milk and draught labour for agricultural work such as tilling, irrigation and carting.When rains fail and pastures are dry, cattle are likely to starve unless they can be moved to areas where forage is available.Cattle need balanced rations containing all nutrients in proportionate amounts.When the pastures were exhausted in one place they moved to a different area to graze their cattle.In addition to people gathering fruits, nuts and medicines from the forests, their cattle also graze in forest areas or feed on other fodder which is collected from forests.Young men came to be recognised as members of the warrior class when they proved their manliness by raiding the cattle of other pastoral groups and participating in wars.To enter a grazing tract, a cattle herder had to show the pass and pay the tax.They raise cattle, camels, goats, sheep and donkeys; and they sell milk, meat, animal skin and wool.In just two years of severe drought, 1933 and 1934, over half the cattle in the Maasai Reserve died.