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Table 3 Household herd size in tropical livestock units (TLU)

From: Pastoralist herd size maintenance during drought with the use of reseeded fields near Lake Baringo, Kenya

Tribe	Cattle	Calves	Sheep	Goats	Kids/lambs	Total
Njemps	11.97	1.75	5.49	6.65	0.60	20.43
Tugen	13.32	2.75	4.32	8.50	1.19	20.86
Total	12.64	2.54	5.04	7.65	1.11	20.66

Note: 1 TLU is equivalent to 250-kg live weight, a cow = 1 TLU, a calf = 0.4 TLU, a sheep/goat = 0.11 TLU, lambs = 0.05 TLU, and kids = 0.04 TLU (Kristjanson et al. 2002; Wilson 2003)

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