4 Tips for Buying Camels and 2 Biggest Mistakes

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Camels (as you probably already know) are very unique animals. But it&#;s not just their looks that are unique (and cute), their temperament, nature and natural abilities are like no other animal and a similar thing can be said for their welfare and camel husbandry needs. We&#;re not saying this to discourage you, BUT, to encourage you to get all the know how before you consider buying a camel. Owing a camel is a life changing decision &#; they have completely changed our lives! We beg you to PLEASE not want to own a camel on the basis that they are cute (which they are). They are a highly misunderstood animals and they appreciate you greater when you can understand them. Camels do get confused and offended &#; they are really really sensitive creatures and work best and safest with their owner when gentle training and handling methods are used.

 

What type camel should you consider buying?

 

Here in Australia we only have dromedary (one humped) camels, so we are only speaking on the basis of having experience and knowledge with dromedary camels.

 

4 Tips for Buying Camels & 2 Biggest (avoidable) Mistakes

 

Tip #1 Buy Two Camels. Camels are better off in pairs. By nature camels are a herd animal, for a very good reason! If you muck around with nature, nature will muck around with you, so stick to natures rules. We prefer to sell camels in pairs or to homes that already have camels.

 

Tip #2 Avoid Bull Camels unless experienced. Bull (intact) camels &#; it has to be said that bull camels &#;can&#; be dangerous when in rut (in season &#; the male comes into season not the female). Normally, we don&#;t sell older bull camels and only will sell older bull camels to very experienced camel handlers.

 

Tip #3 a word on young bull camels: Young bull camels, are generally safe (and adorable). It&#;s important to allow the young bull camel to grown into themselves before your vet neuters. This can be at around 3-4 years of age depending on the camel. Some camels grow quicker than others. If neutering occurs sooner there can be growth complications in the future.

 

Tip #4 Female camels (cows) are not necessarily better or worse in temperament than a male camel. All camels come with their own personal makeup and they all have completely different personalities. Read this article / blog post for more info. We very rarely sell female camels and they are harder to come by lately since the camel dairy industry in Australia has built up a keen interest for female camels. Female camel prices have increase because of this.

 

And...Two Biggest (& Avoidable) Mistakes

 

#1 Biggest mistake that people make is they assume that a camel will be have a better temperament if they acquire a young (baby) camel and bottle / hand raise the camel. We&#;re shouting form the roof tops here: DON&#;T DO IT! Again, camels are very different animals and they really do need their mum, aunties and uncles (other camels) around them to teach them the laws of life and most importantly &#; boundaries. Camel grow big &#; REALLY BIG &#; yes, they are deadly cute when the are young and very affectionate, but when they are older they don&#;t know their own size and, we&#;re sorry to say, that people have been killed by their &#;pet camel&#; because of these reasons. We always say &#;Give us a wild / unhandled camel over a &#;hand raised&#; or &#;bottle raised&#; baby camel A -N -Y DAY OF THE WEEK!&#; For camel and owner best interests we don&#;t sell baby camels (0 -2 years) for this reason.

 

#2 The biggest mistake that people make is that those who have owned other large animals such as horses, cows, hippopotamus&#; etc believe that a camel will be no different to training and husbandry needs. Spoiler alert! Many people in our community that we&#;ve mentored have had lots of large animal experience from professional horse trainers to zoo keepers, they all realised that a camel cannot be compared to any other animal and they are in fact &#;unique&#; and require a &#;unique&#; way of handling and training.

 

Some of our camels have been domestically bred from our beloved and well natured and selected bulls, other camels are / were wild Australian camels.

 

Australian Camels, young female (cow) camel

 

The problem is that we see it way too often, someone buys a camel (tick), camel is maturing and confusion is setting in for camel and owner (tick), camel owner is now unsure about the whole camel idea (tick), camel gets sold on to another person that has always wanted a camel (tick)&#;. You get the gist. Not a very fair &#;gist&#; for the camel &#; a living, breathing creature.

 

We have a rock solid belief here within our company (Australian Camels) that if we were to sell you a car without the keys how will you drive it? You could muck around with the engine to try and start it, possibly making mistakes along the way or you could simply just ask the previous owner for the keys.

 

THERE IS GOOD NEWS! We can give the new camel owner (you) the &#;keys&#; to understanding your camel better. Our Level 1 Trust Based Camel Training Course (clinic) is the perfect place to start for any new camel owner or someone interested in camels.

 

We will mentor you in the basics of understanding the camel, how to break down (not break-in) the communication barrier between you and the camel and we share camel husbandry and caring for camels information that is specific to your area where the camel will be paddocked &#; yes, it&#;s different for every area. Do yourself (and your new camel) a favour &#; Check it out

 

On some of our courses we offer the option to buy the camel you train &#; perfect right!? Check it out here.

 

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Camels, like any other animal, especially in domesticated situations, can in-cure high expenses, often at the error of the human owner. If you&#;re resisting to spending the money on learning how to care for, communicate with and understand your camel, then maybe you be thinking twice about buying / having camels? Camel's are a lifetime commitment. They can live up to 40-50 years some even more than this. We know people who have even set up a retirement plan for their camels so that they are always well looked after even after their human friend (owner) has passed on.

 

We&#;re here for you! We will set you up on the right pathway for your camel journey!

 

Did you like what you read and you want to own a camel in the most responsible and humane way possible? If yes please fill in the form below to get started on your camel journey.

 

 

This article is the second installment of a series that helps you choose among the many open source integration runtime provided by the Apache Camel framework. Part 1 of the series introduced the landscape of Camel runtime options and explained the use case and historical needs addressed by each runtime. This article expands on the advantages and recommended uses for the main runtimes currently supported by the Apache Camel project: Apache Karaf (OSGi), Spring Boot, Quarkus, and Camel K.

Camel's light footprint and versatility also allow for other types of deployment. For instance, you might embed Camel directly as a library to empower your existing application with integration abilities. Or, for similar reasons, you might deploy Camel in an existing web container.

This series doesn't intend to enumerate all the available Camel permutations. We're simply covering the most common community-supported runtimes to run Camel in the enterprise, whether standalone or using a containerized environment such as Kubernetes.

Camel Karaf (OSGi)

From a technical viewpoint, to gain unlimited access to the full power of Camel to tackle all use cases, from the most basic to the most challenging ones, Karaf is the more capable of all the Camel runtimes. The core ability of Karaf's underlying standard, OSGi, is to host many independent modules (bundles), each one loaded by its privately assigned class loader, which allows you to run multiple Camel projects simultaneously. The comprehensiveness of the OSGi solution allows numerous CamelContext instances to coexist under the same JVM and to communicate with one another.

If you want maximum control and intend to implement many services, OSGI seems like the right choice. It's important to note, though, that exploiting OSGi's special powers might create difficulties if down the line you plan to transition to containers. On the one hand, OSGi encourages you to modularize your services well, which helps you adopt a microservices mindset. But if you're not cautious, you might lock yourself into the technology.

Camel Spring Boot

OSGi proved to be overwhelming for many developers, especially inexperienced ones, who prefer simple runtimes where only a single service (CamelContext) runs. These developers gravitated to Camel in Spring Boot, which sacrifices the ability to bundle multiple services together, but still tapped into most of Camel's flexibility and functionality and provided much simpler dependency management.

Spring Boot offers advantages, among other areas, in easier development, autoconfiguration, and more straightforward setup and management, all significantly contributing to its popularity.

Camel on Spring boot has become the most attractive option when deploying in container environments because of its one-Camel-per-instance simplicity. However, as pointed out in Part 1 of this series, running many Spring Boot microservices becomes expensive; its footprint is too big in comparison with non-Java runtimes that are better adapted to the needs of container environments.

Camel Quarkus

Camel Quarkus is the latest Camel runtime generation. It allows you to run integration processes with super low memory usage, fast startup, and outstanding performance. The article Boost Apache Camel performance on Quarkus introduces the topic well.

Like Spring Boot, Quarkus runs a single CamelContext runtime. Although Quarkus doesn't provide you with the unique characteristics that OSGi offers to contain many Camel instances, Quarkus runs standalone both outside and inside containers.

Camel Quarkus requires the latest version of Camel (version 3), whose use is encouraged for all Camel users anyway. If you happen to depend on Camel 2, you'll have to choose a different runtime and forego Quarkus's compactness.

Camel Quarkus is also the base runtime for Camel K, which I'll explain in detail in the following section.

Camel K: Operator-based Camel

With generic Camel and Camel Quarkus, developers have complete framework control at their disposal. In more specific terms, the developer has full access to the CamelContext and can, for instance, wire in Java beans and use them in Camel routes. In other words, the developer rides the Camel.

In contrast, with Camel K, the Operator takes the reins (Figure 1). Camel K introduces abstraction layers to make Camel easier for the end-user and consequently needs to take over some control from the developer. It's a compromise you could accept to enjoy a more user-friendly experience.

The following subsections describe three levels of abstraction that you can achieve using Camel K.

Abstraction 1: Improved developer experience

To start with, Camel K encourages you to create a single file to implement your Camel routes. You might have to include extra resource files (typically to help configure your endpoints), but that's about it: No project trees, no dependency descriptors (e.g., POM files in Maven).

The sweet spot of Camel K is connectivity or event-driven use cases, from source to target, where process/data mediation may be necessary. If you find that your use case requires higher complexity, perhaps with more than one or two target endpoints, Camel K may still be suitable, but probably you should rely on traditional Camel using Quarkus.

Abstraction 2: Kamelets

A second abstraction layer, introduced by Camel K, involves Kamelets, which are essentially predefined route snippets. A Kamelet typically uses a Camel connector (component) with additional logic. By enriching standard Camel connectors, Kamelets effectively become "intelligent connectors" convenient to have as reusable building blocks that you can invoke in a single line from your Camel code.

Figure 2: Kamelet plugs into standard Camel component.

Figure 2 portrays a Kamelet metaphorically as a smart encapsulated device that plugs by default into a network socket, that is, the standard Camel component from where the data originates. Think of the pluggable device as a preprogrammed connector with added intelligence.

Camel K provides a whole collection of Kamelets out of the box. You can browse its catalog and pick the Kamelet that fits your use case. A valuable benefit to consider is that you can also create your own Kamelets, customized to your team's needs, effectively composing a catalog for your organization.

Kamelets are great to use as generic sources and sinks (illustrated in Figure 3) and are also ideal building blocks for low-code and no-code web and graphical user interfaces. Because of Kamelets' atomic encapsulation, you can just specify some parameters in their environment to configure them. The pluggable aspect of Kamlets enables the next abstraction level in Camel.

Figure 3: Catalogue of source and sink Kamelets.

Abstraction 3: Kamelet bindings

A third abstraction layer consists of Kamelet bindings. As the name suggests, Camel K allows you to plug Kamelets together, typically a source and a sink, to form a processing chain that enables an integration data flow between a source system and a target system (see Figure 4).

Figure 4: Kamelet binding enabling a data flow.

You could implement the same processing flow with plain Camel code, but the power of Kamelet bindings lies in relieving you from coding the flows; you're only selecting and configuring reusable components. Kamelet bindings translate into deployed executable instances that Camel K operates, whereas Kamelets are passive entities in a catalog.

Because Kamelets represent reusable connectors requiring just configuration, Kamelet bindings are inherently no-code definitions (in YAML) with just input parameters. It's easy for anyone with access to an environment powered by Camel K to quickly compose a Kamelet binding by pairing a source Kamelet with a sink Kamelet and populating their parameters. The Operator will ride the Camel and deploy a running instance that complies with your definition.

For example, imagine that you pick the Twitter source Kamelet and the Kafka sink Kamelet from the catalog and bind them together (Figure 5). The moment you push its YAML definition to Kubernetes, the Camel K Operator reacts by deploying an integration process that goes live. A data stream of tweets starts flowing from Twitter to Kafka.

Figure 5: Twitter source binding to Kafka sink.

Up next

This article covered the main advantages of the major runtimes currently supported by open source communities, as well as comprehensive information on the most innovative runtime, Camel K.

The final installment in this series will offer a quick guide to help you organize your criteria and choose the best Camel to ride.

Learn more about Camel Quarkus and Camel K

See the following resources to learn more about Camel Quarkus and Camel K:

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