Indigenous Goat Husbandry Practices and Its Production Environment in Case of South Western Ethiopia
Shegaw Ambel,
Elias Bayou,
Dessalegn Genzebu
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2021
Pages:
1-8
Received:
24 November 2020
Accepted:
17 December 2020
Published:
17 March 2021
DOI:
10.11648/j.ajz.20210401.11
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Abstract: This study was conducted in south western Ethiopia, with the main objective of describing indigenous goat husbandry practices and its production environment. For study, a total of 180 sampled households were employed for interview (questionnaire survey and key informative). Mixed crop livestock production system was a common type of farming system with large proportion of goat per household (13.5±0.55). The main purpose of keeping goat was to generate income followed by meat and saving. Communal grazing was the major feed source both in dry and wet season in the study areas. The most dominant housing system in the study area was separate (62.2%) followed by expansion of the main house (25%) and inside main house (12.8%). About 90.6% of the farmers were practiced castration at the age of 26.9±0.83 months in Meanit Goldiya and19.2±0.70 months in Guraferda districts. Disease, predator and feed shortage were the three most important goat production constraints in both areas. Therefore, based on the reason of keeping goats by farmers, the main breeding objective has been defined as increasing meat production (improve growth rate and conformation) across the studied areas. Thus, full utilization is needs to improve the husbandry practices, put in an application of suitable disease prevention system and applying forage development strategies and feeding system.
Abstract: This study was conducted in south western Ethiopia, with the main objective of describing indigenous goat husbandry practices and its production environment. For study, a total of 180 sampled households were employed for interview (questionnaire survey and key informative). Mixed crop livestock production system was a common type of farming system ...
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Impact of the Technique of Mosquito Egg Impregnation on the Emergence Rate in the Insectarium
Andre Sominahouin,
Sebastien Koudenoukpo,
Germain Gil Padonou,
Razacki Osse,
Constantin Adoha,
Casimir Kpanou,
Boulais Yovogan,
Albert Salako,
Esdras Odjo,
Filemon Tokponon,
Martin Codjo Akogbeto
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2021
Pages:
9-13
Received:
19 September 2020
Accepted:
29 September 2020
Published:
17 March 2021
DOI:
10.11648/j.ajz.20210401.12
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Abstract: The breeding of the main vectors is essential for the conduct of many operational research programs. The right option of the technique of watering malaria vector larvae helps entomologists, insectarium managers and entomology technicians to produce high-quality Anopheles mosquitoes in the laboratory for different research and operational objectives. Evaporation of water in the tank causes suffering to the embryos stuck to the wall of the tank and due to lack of immersion, these embryos eventually die. We have experimented with a technique that consists in keeping the eggs in the center of the tank and preventing them from migrating towards the wall with a rectangular opening paper. The aim of this study is to understand the impact of the An. gambiae egg impregnation technique on the harvest rate in the insectarium. The hatching rate for all the eggs put in water in the paper trays is of the order of 83% to 99%. The results of paperless trays are necessarily worse than those of paper trays. In addition, the risk of mortality of larvae in the pupal stage is twenty (20) times lower with the paper tray than with the paperless tray. They therefore constitute basic indications to avoid a number of false steps from the outset.
Abstract: The breeding of the main vectors is essential for the conduct of many operational research programs. The right option of the technique of watering malaria vector larvae helps entomologists, insectarium managers and entomology technicians to produce high-quality Anopheles mosquitoes in the laboratory for different research and operational objectives...
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