Ankole (cattle)

The Ankole is a breed of African cattle, belonging to the broad Sanga cattle group of African breeds.[1]:604 It was probably introduced to Uganda between five and seven hundred years ago by nomadic pastoralists from more northerly parts of the continent. It is distributed in much of eastern and central Africa, particularly in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and parts of Tanzania.

Ankole cattle

Strains

There are at least five distinct regional strains, some of which may be reported as breeds in their own right.[2][3]:109[4]

  • Kigezi from the south west of Uganda, appear to have resulted from interbreeding of local Ankole cattle with Small humpless Shorthorned cattle [5]
  • Watusi from Burundi and Rwanda and in Kivu area of the adjoining Kivu area of eastern DR Congo, with massive horns (the longest Ankole horns)[6] Not to be confused with the American breed Ankole-Watusi
  • Ruzizi from the Ruzizi valley, to the west of the Ruzizi river between Lake Kivu and Lake Tanganika, near the border of the DR Congo with Rwanda and Burundi. With Long sickle shaped horns, coat colour is usually brown but red, red-and-white and black-and-white are also common.[7]
  • Bahima from north-eastern DRC and across the border in north-western Uganda. Which are the tallest Ankole.[8]
  • Bashi from south west of Lake Kivu in eastern DR Congo.[9]


and often included as well;


  • Anuak from the Ethiopia-Sudan border area. [10]
  • Aliab Dinka from the south east of South Sudan, generally white, grey or light fawn coat colour.[11]
  • Nuer from south sudan. but with smaller horns than the Aliab Dinka.[12]




References
  1. Marleen Felius (1995). Cattle Breeds: An Encyclopedia. Doetinchem, Netherlands: Misset. ISBN 9789054390176.
  2. Barbara Rischkowsky, D. Pilling (eds.) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Accessed January 2017.
  3. Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
  4. weeeds/cattle/ankole/index.html/ "Breeds of Livestock - Ankole Cattle — Breeds of Livestock, Department of Animal Science" Check |url= value (help). afs.okstate.edu.
  5. http://uga.dagris.info/node/2460
  6. http://uga.dagris.info/node/2400
  7. http://dagris.ilri.cgiar.org/node/2399
  8. http://cod.dagris.info/node/2397
  9. http://dagris.ilri.cgiar.org/node/2398
  10. http://eth.dagris.info/node/2445
  11. http://eth.dagris.info/node/2446
  12. http://sdn.dagris.info/node/2393


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