Reproduction Performance, Constraints and Opportunities of Indigenous Sheep in West Shewa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
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https://doi.org/10.20372/star.v9i2.02Keywords:
Constrain, Opportunity, Indigenous sheep, Reproductive performanceAbstract
In order to build a sustainable sheep breeding plan, the current study was carried out in the West Shoa Zone's Tokke Kutaye, Ambo, and Dandi districts. It looked at the reproductive performance, limitations, and potential of the local indigenous sheep. The districts were purposefully selected based on their potential for indigenous sheep production. A semi-structured questionnaire was employed to capture all relevant information. About 270 households (90 from each district) were involved in the household survey. Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS, 2013) software was used to analyse the data. Sheep flock sizes per household were 10.2±.34, 11.98±.57, and 11.13±.43 in Tokke Kutaye, Ambo, and Dandi districts, respectively. The average age at puberty of rams was about 6.9±0.15, 6.2±0.10, and 6.3±0.10 in Tokke Kutaye, Ambo, and Dandi, whereas the age at puberty of ewes was 7.9±0.17, 7.1±0.09, and 7.1±0.08 months in Tokke Kutaye, Ambo, and Dandi districts, respectively. Average age at first lambing, lambing interval, litter size, and reproductive life span of ewes in study areas were 14.0±0.13 months, 7.1±0.08 months, 1.4±0.05 lambs/lambing, and 8.4±0.10 years, respectively. The sheep production in the study area was mostly constrained by the prevalence of disease, feed shortages, droughts, a lack of improved genotypes, and a land shortage. Therefore, those constraints have a great influence on the reproductive performance of indigenous sheep in the study area.
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