Poultry, Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences
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Department of Animal and Range Sciences, College of Agriculture, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

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• Research Article   
  Characterization of Husbandry Practices of Indigenous Goat Populations in South Gondar Zone, Ethiopia
  Author(s): Birara Tade*, Aberra Melesse and Simret Betsha
  
  This study was conducted to describe the husbandry practice of indigenous goat populations in South Gondar. To this effect, husbandry practices of indigenous goat population were taken from 153 households (138 males and 15 females) of both sexes selected randomly drawn from three districts (Farta, Fogera and Libokemkem). The districts were selected multi-stage purposive sampling technique and data were gathered through semistructured questionnaire, focus group discussions, field observations analysis using SPSS (version. 20). The results indicates that natural pasture was ranked as first feed resource for goat in both dry and wet seasons for the studied districts those communal grazing land might be leading to mate of unrelated goats especially in large flock size and reduce inbreeding. About 79.7% of the respondent housed their goats separately from other anim.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2375-446X.23.11.241

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