Research Article
Assessment of Constraints of Artificial Insemination Service in Smallholder Dairy Cattle Keepers in Kacha Bira District of Southern Ethiopia
Table 2
Association of AI services with the level of owner’s education.
| Variables | Educational level | Degree level N (%) | Secondary level N (%) | Primary level N (%) | Illiterate N (%) | X2 | value |
| Insemination timing | Inseminate afternoon cow show estrus afternoon (wrong time) | 15 (71.4%) | 44 (73.3%) | 77 (86.52) | 24 (80.0%) | 4.9933 | 0.172 | Inseminate in next day cow in estrus afternoon | 6 (28.6%) | 16 (26.7%) | 12 (13.5%) | 6 (20.0%) | Inseminate morning cow show heat morning (wrong time) | 16 (76.2%) | 44 (73.3%) | 76 (85.4%) | 22 (73.3%) | 4.0347 | 0.258 | Inseminate afternoon cow show heat in the morning | 5 (23.8%) | 16 (26.7%) | 13 (14.6%) | 82 (6.7%) |
| If the cow did not conceive to repeated insemination | Use AI again and again | 7 (33.3%) | 36 (40.5%) | 34 (56%) | 16 (53.3%) | 5.8291 | 0.120 | Use NM | 14 (66.7%) | 53 (59.6%) | 26 (43.3%) | 14 (46.6%) | No f (%) | 3 (14.3%) | 7 (11.7%) | 17 (19.1%) | 10 (33.3%) |
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