We manufacture dietary supplements, not food.
The measurement of Kcal Kg (calories per kilo) is not included in the
calculation of our formulations.
The feed or daily ration must contain (Kcal Kg) all the nutrients required for the camel’s usefulness or workload.
In theory, a balanced animal feed ration should provide all the vitamins and minerals the body needs.
Daily vitamin and mineral intakes in animal feed are often unbalanced. Calculations are necessary
and applicable according to the camel’s weight for age.
In absolute terms, our formulations have no energy value.

They are nonetheless essential, as they play a vital role in all the body’s biochemical processes: among other things, they regulate metabolism
(This is the totality of chemical reactions within the body. It includes the digestion of food, its breakdown into nutrients, the assimilation of nutrients, and the production and storage of energy), facilitate the release of energy, and perform important functions in bone and tissue synthesis.
These include trace elements, vitamins, minerals and plant essences.

SHIFA AGRO – CAMEL’S STAR DISTRIBUTOR

ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT
The project was born of the realization that the camelid world and animal phyto-nutrition are completely compartmentalized. In fact, camel expertise and health assessment are based on pharmacopoeia and treatment with synthetic molecules, either orally or subcutaneously. This applies to breeding, competition and beauty contest camels.
A REAL NEED
Empirical methods of camel selection and evaluation are insufficient. It can be estimated that two camels out of three (75%) after their purchase are financially unprofitable in the first financial year (twenty-four months). Eighty percent (80%) of bone, tendon and muscle pathologies – particularly in young camels – are detected too late, and are redhibitory. This means an abrupt halt to the targeted objectives. Convalescence takes several months. It’s prohibitively expensive in terms of animal care and health. Meat production, the only way out, is not optimal in terms of quantity.
Nutritional deficiency in camels
Key words
Dietary deficiency:
When our body does not receive all the nutrients (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates) and micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, and trace elements) needed for proper functioning. This can happen when these elements are missing from our diet or our body has certain difficulties in absorbing or assimilating them.
Hyperlipidemia:
Increased blood levels of cholesterol and/or triglycerides (stored fats) for camels that are sedentary.
Hypomagnesemia:
Research (deficiency) of magnesium levels in camels.
Kraft:
Change in the visual condition of the camel. Melting of the hump. Lameness. Loss of weight.
Lipolysis:
Degradation of the camel’s fat. When energy is needed. For the camel’s reproduction. Training and competition in the context of a sporting activity.
Myopathy of the camel:
It is a muscular weakness. It is necessary that the camel, intended for reproduction, is in a quality nutritional environment.
NaCl:
Sodium chloride is a chemical compound (salt). A daily amount is needed in her daily ration.
Trace elements:

• They are present in all healthy tissues of an individual.
• Their concentration in the body varies very little.
• A deficiency in this element causes enzymatic and cellular dysfunctions that have an impact on the health of the camel.
• A contribution of this element can prevent or correct the physiological disorders caused by the dietary deficiency.
  Only eight trace elements are of major importance in animal feed: copper, zinc, selenium, manganese, iodine, cobalt and, to a lesser extent, iron and molybdenum…

(Mers-Cov):
Respiratory Syndrome. Camel Star offers a product to fight against this pathology.
Often, nutritional deficiencies and diseases are at the origin of serious pathologies. For example, some diseases – osteopathies (Kraft), myopathies of the chamelon are considered to be of nutritional and metabolic origin.
Nutritional deficiency disorders
Nutritional deficiencies, even if discreet, affect fertility in the first place. Especially in summer, the lack of energy, nitrogen, carotene and even trace elements causes fertilization difficulties which are unfortunately only noticed at a later stage. Severe energy underfeeding in young animals, or in adult animals doing a lot of work, as well as in females at the end of gestation, exposes these animals to a hyperlipidemic syndrome with multiple clinical manifestations: anorexia, diarrhea, ventral edema, asthenia, kidney and liver alterations.
Massive lipolysis results in hypomagnesemia.
Among the most common deficiencies, phospho-calcium and protein deficiencies should be highlighted, which lead to a disease called “Kraft”.
There are other deficiencies, particularly in magnesium, copper, selenium, zinc, NaCl, whose pathological consequences are more or less well studied and observed in the camel. These deficiencies exist depending on the composition of the diet and the nature of the soil.
The camel is sensitive to vitamin deficiencies, vitamin A and vitamin E. As well as calcium and phosphorus deficiency.
Trace element deficiency disorders
With regard to these disorders, we can note the following
a) Magnesium deficiency: incriminates in the syndrome of the contracted camel as well as in certain hyperexcitabilities with muscular tremulations, in dromedaries providing great efforts (work, pack).
b) Copper deficiency: is responsible for anemia and periarticular exostoses in camels.
c) Selenium deficiency: It does not prevent white muscle disease in camels, and does not reduce myopathies (stress myositis). The origin of these myopathies is due to vitamin E deficiency. Excess sulphur predisposes to selenium deficiency.
d) Zinc deficiency, as in other species, is mainly expressed by skin disorders (hyperkeratosis, parakeratosis, alopecia, micro-abscesses…). It is necessary, as part of the nutritional plan, to administer the right amount of zinc. This will
help to keep the skin and coat healthy, as it acts in the synthesis of collagen and keratin. An excess of zinc can be harmful in the same way as lead poisoning, which can lead to major disorders: muscle weakness, anemia, anorexia, pneumonia and pharyngeal and laryngeal paralysis.
NaCl deficiency
It is frequent. The dromedary has a high need in NaCl (200g/100Kg of its live weight). It can better resist to dehydration. Contrary to chotts (salt) areas, where NaCl is abundant. Sub-desert plants are, for the most part, poor in NaCl. This deficiency also manifests itself in skin lesions and lameness.
WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION OF CAMELS
There are around 20 million camels in the world, spread across 35 countries, including Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey, Kenya and Pakistan. On average, there is one dromedary for every 20 people in 18 African countries. A 2020 study showed that 80% of the dromedary population was in Africa. The largest herd is found in Somalia, with 6 million individuals, followed by Sudan and Ethiopia.
Some 51 dromedary breeds have been identified. In Asia, it occupies the entire arid arc from the Arabian Peninsula to the Rajasthan desert in India, the easternmost part of its original range. To the north, it occupies the border regions of Central Asia (Turkmenistan). In Australia, 1.5 million head have been recorded, but these are mainly found in the wild. A meat production industry exists, mainly for export.