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    <dct:title>Phenotypic Characterization of Goats (Capra hiricus) Reared at South Wollo Zone, Northeast Ethiopia.</dct:title>
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    <dct:description>&lt;p&gt;The study was carried out to phenotypically characterize Goats (Capra hiricus) Reared at&lt;br&gt; South Wollo Zone, Northeast Ethiopia with the aim to access the production, qualitative&lt;br&gt; and quantitative characteristics of goats and to assess the type and function of goats by&lt;br&gt; using zoometrical indices. The study was performed based on household survey and field&lt;br&gt; measurements. For household survey, 135 households were involved and body&lt;br&gt; measurements were taken from 450 goats of both sexes from 0PPI to 4PPI. Using the body&lt;br&gt; measurements of the goats 10 structural indices was calculated. Both qualitative and&lt;br&gt; quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS versions 26 and indices calculation was&lt;br&gt; performed by Microsoft excel for windows. The qualitative traits were compared by chisquare test while the quantitative variables were compared by Duncun&amp;rsquo;s multiple range&lt;br&gt; tests. The result indicated that the average goat flock size per household shows increasing&lt;br&gt; trend with respect to equine and cattle while decreasing with respect to sheep. There were&lt;br&gt; higher numbers of female goats than male goats per household. Goats were primordially&lt;br&gt; reared as a source of cash income across the three districts which was followed by&lt;br&gt; meat,income and skin for Kelala; meat, wealth and income for Woreelu and wealth,income&lt;br&gt; and meat for Borena District in their order of importance. The goat flocks were provided&lt;br&gt; with house. The majority of households herded their goats with sheep in the dry season&lt;br&gt; while goats alone in the wet season. Bush/shrub and crop aftermath were the main feed&lt;br&gt; sources of the goats flock in wet and dry season respectively. In the dry season majority of&lt;br&gt; the goats flock have access to clean water while muddy in the wet season. Buckling&amp;rsquo;s wean&lt;br&gt; and reach for market at earlier age than doeling&amp;rsquo;s. Across all the districts, there were&lt;br&gt; higher intensions of selling males than females in dare of cash need. Castration was&lt;br&gt; entirely practiced at the age of 1-2 years traditionally with the aim to fatten and team the&lt;br&gt; bucks. Selection was practiced for both male and female where appearance was the most&lt;br&gt; selection criteria for both sexes. Farmers in the study area mainly practice natural and&lt;br&gt; uncontrolled mating systems. Predator was the main production constraints in all of the&lt;br&gt; studied districts. The main frequently observed coat color pattern of goats were plain and&lt;br&gt; the main dominantly observed coat color type were black. Presence of horn was common&lt;br&gt; with dominant curved shape and backward orientation. The absences of wattle and skin&lt;br&gt; pigmentation, concave face profile and long hair (smooth and glossy in respective order)&lt;br&gt; are the main common characteristics of South Wollo goats. There were no significant&lt;br&gt; difference (p&amp;gt;0.05) among the districts for body weight and linear body measurements.&lt;br&gt; Many of the linear body measurements have significant and positive correlation with live&lt;br&gt; body weight. Generally, the result from the structural indices indicates that the Longhaired&lt;br&gt; Arsi-Bale goats are adaptive to the highland areas. Therefore, this findingwas put baseline&lt;br&gt; for understanding about production and phenotypic characteristics of longhaired ArsiBale goats as a first step in designing a sustainable breeding program in the study area.&lt;/p&gt;</dct:description>
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