Management differ among different camel keeping societies, but all try to keep a predominantly female herd. The camels are usually kept in thorny enclosures over night, where they can be inspected, milked and generally looked after and kept safe from predators.
Where camels are kept as part of a mixed herd, the watering intervals follow the other animals, but where camels are kept separately, watering intervals may be increased gradually up to 2 weeks, enabling camel herds look for browse from a very large distance from water sources.
Well fed camels, which are kept away from areas with biting flies and tsetse flies rarely become sick, but droughts, excessive rains, lack of browse and other debilitating factors can lead to diseases in camels.