Author: Dereje Dea
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The current study was aimed to evaluate Konso goat performance under community based breeding program (CBBP) in Konso zone. Konso goat performance under farmer community level management was not evaluated yet to exploit its potential. Hence, five consecutive years’ data (2018-2022) from three villages (Baide, Arfayde and Jarso), a total of 283 cooperative members and 1859 goat flock size were used for the performance analysis. Means were separated by Duncan multiple range test at α 0.05. Village, month, year, sex, birth type and parity were used as fixed effects for the birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW), six months weight (6MW), nine months weight (9MW), yearling weight (12MW) and mature weights’ (MW) response variables. An overall findings revealed that goats in the study areas have showed that the BW, WW, 6MW, 9MW, 12MW and MW were 2.56, 9.48, 14.61, 18.56, 19.37 and 27.04 kg, respectively. Except WW, the rest of the growth parameters were significantly affected by Village (P<0.05). On the other side, mature weight was not affected by kidding months (P>0.05), and yearling weight was also not affected by kidding year. Kid sex was not affected 6MW and 12MW (P>0.05). Additionally, birth type hasn’t affected BW, 6MW and 12MW. Finally, all the growth parameters weren’t significantly affected (P>0.05) by parity. These findings have revealed that resource-poor participatory goat breeding program should be further monitored and evaluated based on the above mentioned factors’ in short and long term plans for the Konso goat breed genetic improvement.
Community-Based Breeding Program, Goat, Konso, Performance, Selection
The six years’ performances progress from 2018-2022 were evaluated for Konso goat community-based breeding program. The mean birth, weaning, six months, nine months, yearling and mature body weights (kg) were 2.56, 9.48, 14.61, 18.56, 19.37 and 27.04, respectively. The village, month, year and sex were affected birth weight whereas birth type and parity not affected. Weaning weight was also significantly affected by month, year, sex and birth type. Six month was significantly affected by village, month and year. Nine moth was significantly affected by village, month, year, sex and birth type. Yearling weight was significantly affected by both village and month. The higher frequency of the kidding was observed in May, February and April months. Birth weight and yearling weight were better estimated by sex of the goat whereas weaning weight was more predicted by village, month, year and sex of the goat. Furthermore, 6MW was more predicted by year and sex of the goat. Finally, nine month weight was better estimated by village, year and sex of the goat. These findings have shown that resource-poor participatory goat breeding program should be further monitored and evaluated based on the above mentioned factors’ in short and long term plans for the Konso goat breed genetic improvement.
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