eprintid: 43
rev_number: 10
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creators_name: Golla, K.
creators_name: Mekuriaw, Y.
creators_name: Kassa, B.
creators_name: Hailemelekot, M.
title: ON-FARM MONITORING OF GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF INDIGENOUS GOAT IN AMHARA REGION OF ETHIOPIA
ispublished: pub
subjects: SF
divisions: j11
full_text_status: public
keywords: Birth weight Husbandry practices Indigenous goats On-farm monitoring Survival rate
abstract: The study was conducted in Amhara region of Ethiopia, with the objective of characterizing the goat husbandry practice and on-farm monitoring of growth performance. The data were collected by interviewing 180 sample households who are selected purposively from three agro ecologies using semi- structured questioner. Besides, on farm monitoring of growth performance of 60 kids owned by farmers was done for three months. The data was analyzed using SPSS (version 20). Majority of households (68.9) have an experiences of feeding crop residue for their goat and faced feed shortage mainly during dry season (65.6). The main source of water for goat was river which is 51.1 in wet season and 88.9 in dry season. 51.7 of goat keepers had a separate goat house. The major disease reported were anthrax (40.6), goat pox (26.7) and foot and mouth disease (12.8). Purpose of goat keeping was mainly for income source (62.8). 84.4 of the goat owners are experienced selection of male and female animal for production purpose. Body length and height (60.6) and color (34.4) were used as major selection criteria. Higher kidding was reported during months of October (20.55), November (39.44) and December (18.88). Drought (42), shortage of feed and water (38.5), disease and parasite (16), inconvenient climate condition (2) and lack of breeding male (1) were reported as major problems in the breeding objective. The overall birth weight, 60 days and 90 days weight of kids was 1.69±0.08 kg, 7.45±0.41 kg and 12.02±0.25 kg, respectively. The survival rate of kids up to 90 days of age was 74. The production system of the area was characterized by mixed crop-livestock farming system on which crop residue was the main feed source of the goats as other livestock species. Even though the current productivity of goats in the area is fairly good, full potential need to be exploited by improving husbandry practices, applying appropriate disease prevention methods and applying strategic forage development and feeding practices. © 2020, Online Journal of Animal and Feed Research. All Rights Reserved
date: 2020-11-27
publication: Online Journal of Animal and Feed Research
volume: 10
number: 6
publisher: Scienceline Publication
pagerange: 282-289
id_number: 10.51227/ojafr.2020.38
refereed: TRUE
issn: 22287701 (ISSN)
official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85098726025&doi=10.51227%2fojafr.2020.38&partnerID=40&md5=43177cdc6284c80de835d34ceaf0d5cf
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citation:    (2020)     ON-FARM MONITORING OF GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF INDIGENOUS GOAT IN AMHARA REGION OF ETHIOPIA.   Online Journal of Animal and Feed Research.  pp. 282-289.  ISSN 22287701 (ISSN)   
document_url: http://eprints.science-line.com/id/eprint/43/1/OJAFR%2010%286%29%20282-289%2C%202020.pdf