Body Weight and Scrotal-Testicular Biometry in Three Indigenous Breeds of Bucks in Arid and Semiarid Agroecologies, Ethiopia

Table 2

Correlations between live weight and testicular/epididymal traits in Afar and Long-eared Somali (LES) breeds.

	BCS	SC	TV	TL	TD	TW	BW	EW
BCS	1	0.13	0.29	0.18	0.26	0.28	0.17	0.19
SC	0.42	1	0.44	0.82	0.83	0.65	0.54	0.87
TV	0.27	0.32	1	0.61	0.60	0.64	0.60	0.43
TL	0.48	0.83	0.22	1	0.97	0.86	0.82	0.73
TD	0.38	0.85	0.27	0.92	1	0.80	0.78	0.80
TW	0.49	0.88	0.17	0.90	0.88	1	0.90	0.52
BW	0.41	0.86	0.23	0.96	0.96	0.91	1	0.47
EW	0.36	0.76	0.10	0.82	0.68	0.80	0.82	1

BSC: body condition score; SC: scrotal circumference; TV: testicular volume; TL: testicular length; TW: testicular weight; BW: body weight; EW: epididymal weight; TD: testicular diameter; ; ; ns: not significant. Values above the diagonal are for Afar while those below are for Long-eared Somali goats.