Sustainable management of globally significant endemic ruminant livestock in West Africa: Estimate of livestock demographic parameters in SenegalILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) |
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12 month period 12 month retrospective 12 month study 9 animals age class Age-by-sex structure age1 Agyemang annual parturition rates Bandafassy baseline surveys better than average born in herd cattle herds complete reproductive history confidence intervals indicated demographic parameters estimated demographic rates Endemic Ruminant Livestock Estimates of abortion exits recorded expected annually female sheep Figure Gambia genetic improvement goat herds goats herd/flock instantaneous hazard rate intake rates standard last 12 months Lesnoff Lifetime reproductive history livestock demographic parameters Mali Messad month study period mortality rates N’Dama cattle natural death number of animals number of offspring number of parturitions ofage offtake and intake Otte and Chilonda Parity in relation Participatory Rural Appraisal perception of 12 project interventions Prolificacy rate purchase/barter rates for female rates standard errors sales/barter Senegal sheep and goats sheep flocks slaughter small ruminants stillbirth sub-Saharan Africa survey sample total number West Africa West African Dwarf worse than average