Livestock

African catfish is a hardy, air-breathing catfish native to freshwater and brackish habitats across Africa and the Middle East, prized in Kenya for its rapid growth and tolerance of poor water quality.

A medium-sized stingless bee species widespread across East African forests and woodlands, including parts of Kenya and Tanzania, known for producing a distinctive honey rich in the sugar trehalulose. Like other Meliponini it lacks a functional sting and instead relies on biting and resin-based nest defences.

Originating in Ayrshire, Scotland, this medium-to-large dairy breed is recognized by its reddish-brown-and-white (occasionally mahogany) patched coat and was introduced to Kenya during the colonial dairy-development era as a rugged alternative to the Holstein-Friesian.

A hair-sheep breed of Somali origin (closely related to the Somali Blackhead sheep found in Kenya) with a distinctive white body, black head and fat rump, developed further in South Africa after 1869; both sexes are polled with long, goat-like ears.

A large, muscular meat breed developed in early-20th-century South Africa from indigenous African goats crossed with European and Asian stock, easily recognized by its white body and red-brown head and neck. Mature bucks weigh 110-135 kg and does 90-100 kg.

The Boran is a Zebu beef breed developed by the Borana Oromo people of southern Ethiopia and refined by ranchers in northern Kenya through the early-to-mid 20th century into East Africa's premier indigenous beef animal. Mature bulls weigh 550-850 kg and cows 400-550 kg, typically white or light-coated with a pronounced thoracic hump and small horns.

Commercial fast-growing meat strains developed by international breeding companies Cobb-Vantress and Aviagen; Cobb 500 and Ross 308 are the two dominant strains raised in Kenya's commercial and peri-urban poultry sector, selected purely for growth rate and feed efficiency.

Bred by George West in Lynwood, California in the 1920s by crossing Himalayan, Standard Chinchilla and New Zealand White rabbits, the Californian is a stocky, dense-furred white breed with dark Himalayan-pattern points on the nose, ears, feet and tail.

The Camborough is not a heritage breed but a commercial hybrid sow line developed by the Pig Improvement Company (PIC), combining Large White (Yorkshire) and Landrace genetics to maximize reproductive performance, growth rate and feed efficiency in crossbred offspring.

Camel

Camelus dromedarius

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The one-humped dromedary camel, an increasingly important dairy and pack animal in Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) as pastoralist communities diversify away from cattle amid recurring drought.

Descended from the Standard Chinchilla developed in France in 1913 to imitate true chinchilla fur, the larger American Chinchilla was bred in the United States in the early 1920s as a dual-purpose fur-and-meat breed.

Common carp is one of the world's earliest domesticated fish species, native to Eurasia, farmed in Kenya at smaller scale than tilapia or catfish as a hardy bottom-feeding pond fish.