Australian Camel News

Summer/Autumn 2000/2001

Volume 5 Number 4 and Volume 6 Number 1 (double issue)

Published February 2001

• CAMELL expedition news and update
• Gobi Desert bactrian camels may be new mammal species
• Book review: Nutrient Requirements of the Dromedary Camels
• A letter from Pushkar - The Pushkar Camel Fair (India)
• Camel health - Skin abscesses on dromedary camels
• Camel health - Papillomatosis (small warts on the lips and nose)
• The global camel economy - a year 2000 snapshot
• Simple Arab hobbling and safe tethering
• Camel health - Mad Camel Dsease - is it a possibility?
• Camel health - Anthrax in camels (Bacillus anthracis)
• A photo of Eunuch - triple Australian distance champion

Winter/Spring 2000

Volume 5 Numbers 2/3 (double issue)

Published January 2001

• Eunuch takes out Australian camel race championship double.
• Book reviews: Camel Husbandry in Kenya and Selected Topics.
• Selenium deficiencies in camels
• A warning on leather quality
• Essential colostrum (first milk) - part 2
• Caring for leather
• Why camels die if left on their side
• Saving the last of the worlds truely wild bactrian camels
• Kelly Cole's trans-Australia camel expedition odyssey

Autumn 2000

Volume 5 Number 1

Published March 2000

• Camel information on the internet
• Import of camels from the UAE - status report
• Camelid mailing list (email chatgroup)
• Difficult camel births
• Essential colostrum (first milk)
• Great Victoria Desert trek (Australia)
• Death of a camel - lying on side. A warning for camel owners.
• Traditional treatment for soft and sore camel feet
• Australian camel racing - going backwards

Summer 1999

Volume 4 Number 4

Published December 1999

• Eunuch too good in 1999 - again
• CACIA's trading arm shut down
• Camels are main threat to Dingo-Proof Fence
• Capricorn Expedition close to the east coast
• Camell - 3 years on and still going
• Camel intelligence. Clever teddys or just teddys?
• Camel expeditioning in dangerous overdrive
• Nutrient Requirements of the Dromedary Camels - by Dr Muhammad F. Wardeh. Book review.
• "Old Joe" - camel cigarette icon
• Ranking Australia's best race camels
• Camel hoof paste (soup)

Spring 1999

Volume 4 Number 3

Published September 1999

• Camels join protest against uranium industry
• Training wild camels
• Expedition 2000 (trans-Australia)
• Capricorn Camel Expedition (trans-Australia)
• Book on camel cartoons
• Cameleers, the media and the camel industry
• Hobbles - their use and manufacture
• Camels in mourning

Winter 1999

Volume 4 Number 2

Published June 1999

• Exciting new camel expeditions in the field
• Importation of UAE camels into Australia
• Aussie racing camels - past, present and future
• Australia's first camel
• Regulatory camel racing - an update

Autumn 1999

Volume 4 Number 1

Published March 1999

• A camel called "Harry"
• H.M. Barker (1888-1973)
• Three stomachs or four?
• Color Atlas of Camelid Hematology - Book review
• Camel Caravan - new magazine
• Safety issues out west and the "twiddle test"
• David Mason's 5,500km trans-Australia expedition
• Is your camel sick?
• Signs of pregnancy in dromedary camels
• Queensland camel racing leaps ahead

Summer 1998

Volume 3 Number 4

Published December 1998

• Epic 5,500 km east-west crossing of Australia completed
• Rick Hall beats drink-driving-a-camel charge
• Australia criss-crossed by camel
• The camel nasal bot fly - Cephalopina titillator
• Camel health - Johne's Disease
• Camel intelligence - an angry operator's viewpoint

Spring 1998

Volume 3 Number 3

Published September 1998

• ACRA - making sense of the mess
• The Australian camel meat industry
• Colic in the camel
• Basic nutritional requirements of the camel
• Outback by Camel. Rex Ellis. Book review.
• When does a camel need a drink?
• Browsing conundrums of Australian camels
• Indian camel nomenclature
• Oleander camel poison

Winter 1998

Volume 3 Number 2

Published June 1998

• Agisted camels shot in South Australia
• Camel museum proposal for Bosnia (Europe)
• Bactrian camel fighting - a sport in Turkey
• The bactrian camel
• Learning camel racing - Arab style
• Australian pastoral attitudes to feral camels
• Indian camel tour

Autumn 1998

Volume 3 Number 1

Published March 1998

• ACRA and now ACA
• The Central Australian Camel Industry Association
• Australian jockeys train in the UAE
• VIP visitors from the UAE

Summer 1997

Volume 2 Number 4

Published December 1997

• ACRA inc. - It's here
• UAE President offers race sponsorship
• Whipworm infestations
• Infectious Diseases of Camelids - book review
• Australia's first camels
• Belly dancers
• Camels in the NT
• A camel safari in Kenya
• African camel racing
• Camel games

Spring 1997

Volume 2 Number 3

Published September 1997

• Jessie triumphs - Australia's fastest sprint camel
• New book - selected meat cuts and information on camels
• Origin of modern Australian camel racing
• Secrets to camel management
• When to castrate
• Code of Practice for cameleers
• The Camel Destruction Act. 1925 (Australia)

Winter 1997

Volume 2 Number 2

Published June 1997

• Camels - A Compendium. New book released.
• Desert Sands 2000 (Boulia) camel race
• Camel wool - a potential for income
• The 1996 Pushkar camel fair
• Story of the 26th Transport Squadron race team
• A new Watkins camel saddle
• Coconut fibre for saddle packing

Autumn 1997

Volume 2 Number 1

Published March 1997

• Camel teeth eruption patterns
• Camel meat market surges
• Philippines imports camels
• 1935 Bactrian trek in Mongolia
• Sex change in camel successful
• Camel reproduction statistics
• camel tolerance to salt water
• selenium and camel health
• Somali camel herders
• Raikas (India) camel herders
• camel poisoning experience and use of dolomite and vitamin C as cure
• Mauritanian camel words

Summer 1996

Volume 1 Number 4

Published December 1996

• Israel 1st Eilat International Camel Conference
• Boulia (Qld) and Oaklands (NSW) join race circuit
• Prices paid for Arab race camels
• Kenyan camel bandits
• Camel milk
• Robyn Davidson's new book - "Desert Places"

Spring 1996

Volume 1 Number 3

Published September 1996

• Wally - the first all-Australian race champion
• Camelling along the Silk Road
• The last wild Bactrian camels
• Mange (Sarcoptic mange) can affect humans
• Foot disorders
• Australian Camel Racing Association initiative
• Licensing of camels in NSW

Winter 1996

Volume 1 Number 2

Published June 1996

• Australian camel vets abroad
• Australian camel saddlers
• Camels and water

Autumn 1996

Volume 1 Number 1

Published March 1996

• Rosemount Winery offers $10,000 race sponsorship
• Port Augusta Camel Fair
• Movement of camels within Australia