animals from the collection centre to Kumasi cattle market and the average number of animals a merchant purchased was 21.4 per trip. To transport animals from collection centers to Kumasi, it took on average about 37 hours. It took at most 8 hours to transport the animals from Yeji in Ghana, 24 hours from northern Ghana, 48 hours from Burkina Faso and Cote D’Ivoire, and 72 hours from Mali to Kumasi.