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This study was conducted in Dawuro Zone, Southern Ethiopia. The objective of this study was to assess and identify the goat husbandry practice around Dawuro Zone. The district has been stratified in to lowland, midland and highland agro ecologies for this study. Semi-structured questionnaires, PRA tools were employed to collect the data. For this study, 6 Kebeles, 2 from each district, were selected. From each Kebeles, a group of 35 to 40 farmers were organized at each study site and different types of Participatory Rural Appraisal were conducted. The data collected were analyzed using PRA tool of pair-wise rankings and results expressed in simple descriptive statistics. The household preference for livestock species showed that goat and cattle ranked as preference I and II, respectively, in all the three agro ecologies with the indices for goat were 0.47, 0.45 and 0.35 whereas the corresponding indices for cattle were 0.35, 0.36, and 0.30 in lowland, midland and high land agro ecologies, respectively. The proportion of farmers (respondents) using both communal and private grazing land were 68.3%, 67.4% and 61.6% in lowland, midland and highland, respectively. The households owning a large flock had separate housing unit for goats whereas households with small flock size shared their living house with goat. The major production constraints were diseases and external parasites, predators, feed shortage and lack of goat keeper or labor. The study further showed that PPR, external parasite, CCPP, Pasteurellosis, Mange and Anthrax were highly prevalent diseases, in descending order, in the study area.
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