GENERIAL INFORMATION
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There are totaly 19.1 million camels on the world and 0.8 million of them are 2-humpled camels. 30 % of 2-humpled camels are in mongolia. To judge from this 2-humpled camels are so rare in the world and Mongolia is main area for the camels. There were 895.3 thousand in 1954.Today the number of camels are decreased by 3 times than that time.Since 1995 totoal number of camels has decreased by 22.4%, that means 82.3 thousand camels havedead since 1995.Thus mongolian camels are decreased fastly and it is in danger of extinction. Most of the dead camels are for food.In recent yaers peaple kill camel for the food. as it has plenty of meat and fat. Since 1995 totally 229.3 thousand camels are used for food. In otehr words every year 10% of camels used for food because of poverty, lack of food and cash in the countryside.
 


SPREAD
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The 41.7% of Mongolian territory is Gobi. About 70 percent of camels is found in the Gobi.

NUMBER OF CAMELS
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. There are totally 19. 1 million camels in the world and 0.8 million of them is two humped camels.
30 of 2-lhumpled camels are in Mongolia . To judge from this two humped camels are so rare
in the world and Mongolia is main area for the camels . Nowadays 285.2 thousand camels in Mongolia
although they were 895.3 thousand in 1954. Today the number of camels are decreased by 3 times than
that time . Since 1995 to the number of camels is decreased by 22.4% that means 82.3 thousand camels
are dead since 1995.

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PRODUCTIVITY
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¼EAT: Camel meet; Mongolian camel's meat yield is 61.9-64.1 % and death wieght is 56.8-57.8%, inside fat is 5.1-6.4%.Cmael meat is used food and also peaple dry camel meat in stripes.
MILK

Mongolian camel milking season continuous 528 days or 17.6 months and during this period milk yield is 174.6-576.5l. Ingredients of milk;(%} dry substance 14.88 oil 5.39 suger 5.10 ash0.69 protein 3.80

WOOL:

Mongolian camel's wool yield is 2.6-8.1 kg. 21.6-26.7% of it is coarse wool. Camel wool consists of guard hair, intermediate wool and cashmere 5.1-5.6 % is guard hair 20.8-25.3 % internediate wool and 69.5-73.6% cashmere.

   
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  • Gobi
  • Eermel
  • ¼Þngol-Amikal
 

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BREEDING
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She camel begins to breed at the age of 3 and camel begins to breed from the age of 5. Camel breeding is slow as they mate every other year after calving and they hardly produce twince and carry the young for a long while, 380-420 days than any livestock.From a month before the mate, a camel begins to reduce its grazing, draw in the stomach, rub its nape of the head, snarl and grind its teeth. It is called camel rut.
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EQIUPMENT
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Khom shat means pack -saddle and it is used for transport to load-up baggage. The pack -saddle is very important not only to protect camel humps but also it makes very simple to load. One camel can lift 200-240kg baggage and 15% of total baggage is weight of pack-saddle.

Buil means nose-peg. Nose peg is made of Willow, Almond, Caryobteris and Buckthorn. The length of nose-peg is usually 10-12sm. Materials or woods should be very clear and smooth. There is a leather washer fixed to the pointed and of a camel's nose -peg. Buil is used for leading and riding.

Burantag means leading-rein and it is140-150sm long.

Tokhosh: Camel's riding saddle. It is made of felt carpet and leather. The length of one side is 75-80 sm and wide is 40 sm. Tokhosh is used for comfortable riding.

 

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