Preventive herd management practices and their effect on lamb mortality in Ethiopia
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Preventive herd management practices and their effect on lamb mortality in Ethiopia
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Genfors, E.
Magnusson, Ulf Moliso, M.M. Wieland, Barbara König, U. Hallenberg, G.S. Båge, R. |
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animal production
small ruminants sheep |
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According to previous studies, lamb mortality is high in the Ethiopian highlands. The present study aims to evaluate the execution of preventive sheep herd health management practices with respect to if, and how, such practices are linked to occurrence of lamb mortality. Interviews were performed with 74 sheep-owning households participating in a capacity development program on livestock and 69 households not participating in such program. To evaluate the impact of combinations of performed practices, a scoring system was developed—the households retrieved a higher score the more desired routines were accomplished. To identify which practices had the highest impact on lamb mortality, a similar score was calculated for each phase of the sheep reproductive year, creating sub-scores for each phase. The results showed a significant (p
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2023-02
2023-01-31T09:32:23Z 2023-01-31T09:32:23Z |
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Journal Article
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Genfors, E., Magnusson, U., Moliso, M.M., Wieland, B., König, U., Hallenberg, G.S. and Båge, R. 2023. Preventive herd management practices and their effect on lamb mortality in Ethiopia. Tropical Animal Health and Production 55(1): 42.
0049-4747 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128347 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-022-03361-x |
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en
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CC-BY-4.0
Open Access |
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42
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Tropical Animal Health and Production
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