Agroecology Is Affecting Village Chicken Producers’ Breeding Objective in Ethiopia

Table 9

Possession of breeding males, effective population size, and level of inbreeding of village chicken flock in the study area.

Agroecologies	Total number of respondents (N)	Not possess breeding males N (%)	Possess breeding males (%)	Nm	Nf	Ne	ΔF
HL	95	16(16.85)	36.8	3.22	5.5	8.1	0.06
ML	190	22 (11.6)	21.6	0.7	2.45	2.17	0.23
LL	95	23(24.2)	20	0.62	2.48	1.98	0.25

Nm: number of breeding males; Nf: number of breeding females; Ne: effective population size; ΔF: inbreeding coefficient; HL: highland; ML: midland; LL: lowland; N: number of respondents.