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| dc.contributor.author | Semagn Atanaw | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-13T07:00:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-13T07:00:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-04 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/15348 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study was conducted in Tegedie district Central Gondar Zone of Amhara Regional states to asses the husbandary practice and evaluate the pre-weaning growth performance and survival rate of local goat types in their production environment. Both primary and secondary data were collected from a semi- structured questionnaire, field observation, group discussions, and performance monitoring. The data collected from the questionnaire were described and analyzed using descriptive statistics procedures of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and data collected from performance monitoring were subject to GLM analysis by using SAS version 8. Mixed crop-livestock production was the predominant production system in the study area. Natural pasture was the major source of goat feed both in the dry and wet seasons with index value of 0.53 and 0.72 respectively. The most serious constraints hindering goat production in the study area were feed shortage, disease, and market infrastructure with index value of 0.29, 0.2 and 0.19 respectively . The prolificacy, low initial cost and increased meat demand were the first, second, and third opportunities. The overall least squares mean birth and weaning weight were 2.47±0.11 and 9.4±0.34 kg and the overall least squares mean average daily gain (in grams) from birth to 30, 60, and 90 days were 108±5.43, 88±4.14 and 75±3.02, respectively. Birth weight, pre-weaning weight, pre- weaning growth rate, and survival rate were significantly affected by agroecology, parity and birth type. Male kids birth weight were higher than female kids (2.56±0.10 vs. 2.10±0.10, p<0.0001). Parity one kids had significantly lower birth weight than the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth parity (1.69±0.18 vs. 2.58±0.15, 2.63±0.13, 2.29±0.18, 2.46±0.26 and 2.46±0.26, P<0.0001). Similarly, single-born had higher than the twin and tripleborn kids (2.67±0.11vs. 2.30±0.13 and 1.98±0.25, P< 0.0001). The overall survival rate from birth to 90 days was 15 %. In general, Local goat types under traditional management systems had lower pre-weaning growth performance and survival rates in the current study. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Animal Production | en_US |
| dc.title | Assesment of Husbandary Practice and Evaluation of Pre-Weaning Growth Performance and Survival Rate of Local Goat in Tegedie District, Centralgonder Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
