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TY - JOUR
AU - Odeyinka, S. M.
AU - Okunade, G. K.
PY - 2021/01/01
Y2 - 2026/09/17
TI - Goat Production in Oyo State: A case study of Ogbomoso town
JF - Nigerian Journal of Animal Production
JA - NJAP
VL - 32
IS - 1
SE - Articles
DO - 10.51791/njap.v32i1.1058
UR - https://www.njap.org.ng/index.php/njap/article/view/1058
SP - 108-115
AB - <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The study </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">wa</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">s </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">conducted </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">in </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">two </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Local </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Government </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">areas (</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">LGAS</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">) </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oyo State</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ogbomoso </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">North </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ogbomoso </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">South </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">L</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">G</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">A</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">stud</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">y </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">was </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">carried </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">out </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">through </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">use </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of structured </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">questionnaires</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">A </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">total </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">90 </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">questionnaires </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">w</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ere </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">administered </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">randomly </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">in </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">t</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">w</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">o </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">LGAS</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Questions </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">were </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">asked </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">based </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">on </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">background</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">production system</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">constraints </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">to </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">goal </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">product</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ion </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">e</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">l</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">cof </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">respondents</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">data </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">were </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">analyzed separately </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">using </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">descriptive </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">analysis</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">results </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">showed </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">that </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">95</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">2</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">% </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">household </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">owners </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">goat </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">were </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">females while </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">major </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">farms </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">emplored </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">male </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">labour</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">We</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">st </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">African </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dwarf </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">goat </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">was </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">common </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">breed </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of goat </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">raised </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">in </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">two </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">LG</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">AS</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Majurin </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">household </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ow</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ners </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">goat </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">practised </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">free </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">range </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">sy</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">stem </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">production </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">86</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">7</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">%</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">) </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">w</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">hile </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">u </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">lurge </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">percentage </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">major </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">farms </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">practice</span></em><strong><em>d </em></strong><strong><em>intensive </em></strong><strong><em>syst</em></strong><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">em </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">production </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">80</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">%</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">)</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">There </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">w</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ere </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">no </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">special</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">i</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">zed </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">hous</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ing </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">and feeding </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">programmes</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">a </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">larger </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">percentage </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">both </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">categories </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">fed </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">crop </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">residues </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">such </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">as </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">cassava </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">peels</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">c</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">o</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">rnstarch </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">meal </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">residues</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">cowpea </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">husk </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">to </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">goats</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">household </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">owners </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">goal </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">seldom </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">feed </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">forage </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">to </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">their </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">goats </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">20</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">%</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">) while </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">all </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">major </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">farms </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">fed </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">forage </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">to </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">goats</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The common </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">diseases </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">in the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">area </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">w</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ere </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">diarrhea</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">pneumonia </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">mange</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Noform </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">control </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">breeding </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">w</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">as </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">practiced </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">among </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">categories </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">goat </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">kee</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">p</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ers</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">There </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">is </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">a </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">lack </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">extension </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">service </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">in </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><strong><em>areas </em></strong><strong><em>because </em></strong><strong><em>ma</em></strong><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">jority </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of both </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">household </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">owners </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">98</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">%</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">) </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">major </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">farms </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">60</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">%</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">) </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">did not </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">have </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">acc</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">e</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">s</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">s </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">to </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">extension </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">agent</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">s</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">T</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">he </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">constraints </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">to goat production </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">in </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">area </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">include </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">accidents </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">on </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">road</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">seasonality </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">seed </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">supply</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">diseases</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">theft</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">lack </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">of </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">capital </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">land</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em></p>
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