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On-farm performance evaluation of indigenous sheep and goats in Alaba, southern Ethiopia

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Title On-farm performance evaluation of indigenous sheep and goats in Alaba, southern Ethiopia
 
Creator Gemiyu, D.
 
Subject SHEEP
GOATS
 
Description A flock monitoring study on 60 households as undertaken from October 2008 to September 2009 to measure productive and reproductive performances; determine socioeconomic benefits and husbandry practices; and identify production barriers and suggest intervention options in Alaba Special Woreda. The Woreda was stratified on the basis of sheep and goat densities and the respective sites and households were selected using multistage (purposive and random) sampling techniques. Mean land holding per household was 1.5 ha. On average, a household owned 6.5 cattle, 6.1 sheep, 4.5 goats, 1.15 equines and 4.2 chickens. Hot pepper, teff and chat are the major cash sources for farmers. Small ruminant are mainly kept for income generation. Males were sold or slaughtered before attaining puberty. ‘Afelama’, a local bylaw and punishment rule, restricts movement of sheep and goats during cropping period. Sale, death, home slaughter, share holding, gifts out and predator contributed for 60.5, 13.8, 11.0, 5.2, 1.4, and 5.7% exits, respectively, in sheep flocks while the corresponding values for goats were 41.5, 17.8, 16.1, 5.9, 11.9, and 2.5%. Sheep and goats are mainly sold to purchase agricultural inputs (fertilizer and improved seeds) and is the major reason for the reported exits. Home born, purchase, shareholding, and gifts back constituted 87.1%, 10.1, 1.7 and 1.1% entries, respectively, for sheep while for goats the values were 94.4, 2.1, 2.8 and 0.7%, respectively. Most lambing and kidding occurred between March and June, the apparent peak being in May. Mean birth weight (BWT)(kg), weaning weight (WWT)(kg), Average daily gain to weaning (ADG, g), litter size, age at first parturition and parturition interval (months) for sheep were 2.30+0.03, 10.35+0.19, 89.24+1.98, 1.52+0.04, 12.43+0.1, and 9.19+0.08, respectively. The corresponding values for goats were 2.34+0.03, 9.85+0.29, 82.34+3.18, 1.47+0.04, 11.95+0.13, and 9.05+0.08 respectively. Sex, parity, litter size and season significantly (P
Canadian International Development Agency
 
Date 2010-11-10T06:53:50Z
2010-11-10T06:53:50Z
2009-11-15
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier Gemiyu, D. 2009. On-farm performance evaluation of indigenous sheep and goats in Alaba, southern Ethiopia. MSc of Science in Animal and Range Sciences (Specialization: Animal Production). 163p. Awassa (Ethiopia): Hawassa University.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/2574
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Hawassa University