Evaluation of the Crossbreeding Scheme and Farmers’ Perception of Awassi and Dorper Crossbred Sheep

Table 5

The estimated breeding value of distributed crossbred Dorper rams and ewes.

Sources of variation	N	BWT	BWT-EBV	WWT	WWT-EBV
Overall mean	112	3.32 ± 0.05	0.007 ± 0.001	15.3 ± 0.33	0.273 ± 0.07
Sex		ns	ns	ns
F	25	3.35 ± 0.10	−0.014 ± 0.03	14.6 ± 0.52	0.514 ± 0.09
M	87	3.32 ± 0.06	0.013 ± 0.02	15.5 ± 0.40	0.208 ± 0.08
Location		ns	ns
Gubalafto	20	3.21 ± 0.11	−0.003 ± 0.04	17.6 ± 0.80^a	0.652 ± 0.16^a
Research center	7	3.48 ± 0.14	0.035 ± 0.05	15.7 ± 0.82^ab	0.599 ± 0.15^a
Sendafa	27	3.31 ± 0.10	−0.027 ± 0.03	14.4 ± 0.51^b	0.459 ± 0.09^ab
Habru	12	3.26 ± 0.20	−0.041 ± 0.05	15.0 ± 1.19^ab	0.284 ± 0.18^ab
Kalu	5	3.36 ± 0.12	0.024 ± 0.03	15.7 ± 0.95^ab	0.397 ± 0.27^ab
Raya Kobo	41	3.36 ± 0.09	0.043 ± 0.03	14.8 ± 0.61^ab	−0.108 ± 0.11^b

BWT: birth weight; WWT: weaning weight; EBV: estimated breeding value; Ns, ; , . Least square means with different superscripts within the same column and class are statistically different.