Production objectives, breeding practices and selection criteria of indigenous goat in Loma District

Yakob Lorato Lomba

Abstract


This study was conducted to identify goatproduction objectives, existing breeding strategies and selection criteria atlowland, mid altitude and highland agro ecologies in Loma District, southern Ethiopia. A preliminary survey, group discussion and a detailed structured questionnaire were used to collect data from 230 households (90 from lowland, 70 from mid altitude and 70 from highland agro ecologies). Based on an index, the overall primary objective for goat production in study area was revealed that socio-economic (cash, asset, security) and production or yield attribute (meat) were ranked first and second preferred traits by farmers with index of 0.47, 0.44 in lowland; 0.45, 0.42 in midland and 0.47, 0.40 in highland areas. Main source of replacement of stock is “Farm born” in all three agro ecologies (78.9, 84.3 and 78.6 in lowland, midland and highland, respectively). The other modes of replacement (Purchased, Gift, on farm born and Purchased & On farm born, Purchased & gift) accounted for the remaining proportion of acquisition in the three agro ecologies. The major disposable of goats from flock was on account of a combination of “sale, death and slaughter” mode in the study area (51.1, 64.4 and 62.9 in lowland, midland and highland areas, respectively). Major proportion of mating was uncontrolled in all three agro ecologies (72.3, 67.2 and 60.0 % in lowland, midland and highland areas, respectively. Production objectives, trait preference of the goat owners and breeding practices among Agro ecologies needs to be considered in designing sustainable breeding strategy to improve productivity of goat in the study area.


Keywords


Breeding objectives, breeding doe, breeding buck, disposal, selection criteria

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