Research Article
Agroecology Is Affecting Village Chicken Producers’ Breeding Objective in Ethiopia
Table 7
Farmers’ preferences toward major morphological traits.
| | Major traits (Guragina) | Agroecologies n (%) | Total N (%) | | HL | ML | LL |
| | Plumage color | | White (Guwad) | 30 (28.5) | 46 (24.2) | 17 (16.5) | 93 (24.5) | | Mixed color (Arekot) | 11 (10.45) | 25 (13.16) | 16 (15.2) | 52 (13.7) | | Speckled (Kekebetye) | 9 (8.55) | 17 (8.9) | 10 (9.5) | 36 (9.5) | | Red (Bisha) | 46 (43.7) | 103 (54.2) | 50 (47.5) | 199 (52.4) | | Black (Tikur) | 2 (1.9) | 3 (1.6) | 2 (1.9) | 7 (1.8) | | Any other | 2 (1.9) | 6 (3.2) | 5 (4.75) | 13 (3.4) |
| | Comb type | | Single (Tiletiye) | 5 (4.75) | 15 (7.9) | 3 (2.85) | 23 (6.1) | | Double(Difdif) | 90 (85.5) | 172 (90.5) | 92 (87.4) | 354 (93.2) | | Any other | 5 (4.75) | 13 (6.8) | 5 (4.75) | 23 (6.1) |
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HL: highland; ML: midland; LL: lowland; N: number of respondents.
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