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    <creator>
      <creatorName>Zemedkun Diffe</creatorName>
      <affiliation>Mekdela Amba University</affiliation>
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  <titles>
    <title>Phenotypic Characterization of Goats (Capra hiricus) Reared at South Wollo Zone, Northeast Ethiopia.</title>
  </titles>
  <publisher>Zenodo</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2025</publicationYear>
  <subjects>
    <subject>Borena, Kelala, Woreelu, South Wollo goats, phenotypic traits, Structural indices.</subject>
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  <dates>
    <date dateType="Issued">2025-07-22</date>
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    <description descriptionType="Abstract">&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;</description>
    <description descriptionType="Other">Funded by Mekdela Amba University</description>
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