There are very few men around as the situation has forced those who can to leave their homes in search of greener grazing areas – sometimes crossing borders – for what remains of their herds.
The authorities are aware of the food shortages.
Jacob Letosiro, from Turkana county’s drought management team, says more than 320,000 people are in “urgent need of food assistance” in the county.
He cautions that the recent rainfall could be off-season rains, which may not last, and in any case would take some time before they made any difference.
“They may not have an immediate impact for livestock or improve water availability. So it’s not something worth celebrating at this point,” he says.
Across Kenya, some three million people are affected.
Humanitarian agencies and the Kenyan government say they are responding to the growing crisis.
At a Red Cross food storage facility just outside Turkana county’s capital, Lodwar, workers are loading bags of food onto lorries. The supplies are set to be transported to be given to some of the most vulnerable households who have no other means of survival.
But the Red Cross in Turkana acknowledges that the need for food assistance is greater than available resources.
“We have only little food, which cannot reach all people in need,” Rukia Abubakar, the Turkana coordinator for the Kenya Red Cross, tells the BBC.
“That’s why we are asking partners and well-wishers to come and support the people.”
Other organisations, including World Vision Kenya and the UN’s World Food Programme, are also providing food assistance to vulnerable households.
The Kenyan government has announced plans to begin distributing food and livestock feed in counties most affected by drought.
But humanitarian officials warn that the scale of the crisis remains enormous.
And for people like Ebey, that means that they will have to survive on the resources they still have and what little they can find in the wild.
