“…The lack of sex differences in birthweights has also been reported in Rendille/Gabbra camel calves (for example, Simpkin, 1985), while under more favourable environmental conditions in India, male calves disclosed greater birthweights than females (Pander et al, 1986). This superiority has also been shown for other livestock species, including sheep, managed under favourable environmental conditions (Gootwine and Rozov, 2006) but is masked under unfavourable environmental conditions (Schmidt et al, 2006). Parity has also been observed to be an important factor in the birthweight of camels (Chaudhary and Beniwal, 1983;Pander et al, 1986), cattle (Kabuga and Agyemang, 1983) and sheep (Benyi et al, 2006;Gootwine and Rozov, 2006).…”