Kigezi

Cattle

They are a specific strain of what is generally referred to as the Ankole group of cattle. The original cattle, from which this strain is derived, were brought to western and southern Uganda by Hamitic tribes migrating from northeastern Africa and possibly the Sahel in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Kigezi cattle appear to have resulted from interbreeding of local Ankole cattle with Small Humpless Shorthorned cattle, which had inhabited this region until the first quarter of the 20th century. Consequently, their conformation differs from the general feature of the other Ankole types from the fact that they are smaller and possess shorter and finer horns than all of the ecotypes of the group (Felius 1995). Kigezi cattle are mainly found in the extreme southwestern corner of Uganda. ref: agtr.ilri.org