Performance Evaluation of Boer × Central Highland Crossbred Bucks and Farmers’ Perceptions on Crossbred Goats in Northeastern Ethiopia

Table 6

Spearman’s rank correlation among important traits.

	PA	GR	MY	HT	WA	DT	DR	KSR	MP	FR
PA
GR	0.55
MY	0.38	0.49
HT	−0.26	−0.55	−0.16^ns
WA	−0.30	−0.54	−0.32	0.69
DT	−0.25^ns	−0.50	−0.19^ns	0.74	0.72
DR	−0.24	−0.46	−0.10^ns	0.59	0.57	0.67
KSR	−0.22^ns	−0.44	−0.11^ns	0.62	0.59	0.55	0.70
MP	0.46	0.54	0.24 ns	−0.23	−0.45	−0.19^ns	−0.15^ns	−0.19^ns
FR	0.44	0.62	0.31	−0.46	−0.49	−0.40	−0.38	−0.34	0.55

PA, physical appearance; GR, growth rate; MY, milk yield; HT, heat tolerance; WA, walking ability; DT, drought tolerance; DR, disease-resistant; KSR, kid survival rate; MP, market preference; FR, feed requirement. , <0.001; , <0.01; , <0.05; ns = nonsignificant.