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Table 3 Indices method ranking analysis of producer’s phenotype trait of interest

From: Flock composition, breeding strategies and farmers’ traits of interest evaluation of Wollo highland sheep and their F1 crosses

Traits of interest

N

Index

Rank

Body conformation (large frame)

59.0

0.186

2.0

Hair type (wooly type)

28.0

0.055

9.0

Color type (without black and white)

39.0

0.060

7.0

Drought resistance (resistant)

41.0

0.068

6.0

Disease resistance (resistant)

28.0

0.055

8.0

Horn type (upward twist)

21.0

0.044

11.0

Growth rate (fast)

62.0

0.191

1.0

Prolificacy rate (twice)

26.0

0.050

10.0

Tail type (long and fat tailed)

20.0

0.040

12.0

Age at first lambing (short)

51.0

0.086

4.0

Lambing rate (fast)

42.0

0.075

5.0

Weaning rate (fast)

54.0

0.09

3.0