Agroecology Is Affecting Village Chicken Producers’ Breeding Objective in Ethiopia

Table 1

Ecological characteristics and human and chicken flock size of study districts (mean ± SD).

Ecology	Agroecologies			Total
	HL	ML	LL
Human population	109, 888	120, 597	83, 484	104656.33 ± 15596.4
Average family size	4.9	4.2	4.5	4.53 ± 0.286
Number of household	22533	28,713	18,552	23,266 ± 4180.46
Total number of chickens	89379	249,827	58,272	132,493 ± 83934
Average flock size	3.9	8.7	3.1	5.2 ± 2.47

The three districts, i.e., Gumer, Cheha, and Abeshigea, represent HL (highland), ML (midland), LL (lowland), respectively; N is the total number of respondents.