Share-herding

Share-herding or purchase of small livestock are livelihood strategies within the reach of households headed by women, aided by children herders, but constraints including shortage of pasture and animal feed.

Burckhardt described share-herding (I, 17-18) between the tribes and the villagers of the Hawran, and it is implicit in the descriptions of livelihood attached to tribal listings in French Mandate records.

The cattle raising on the basis of share-herding is also popular.