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

Table 3

Correlations between live body measurements and epididymal/testicular traits in Woyto-Guji breed.

	BCS	SC	TV	TL	TD	TW	BW	EW
BCS	1	0.15	0.24	0.36	0.40	0.40	0.37	0.40
SC	0.15	1	0.67	0.67	0.72	0.77	0.66	0.66
TV	0.24	0.67	1	0.38	0.51	0.55	0.41	0.36
TL	0.36	0.67	0.38	1	0.96	0.89	0.95	0.98
TD	0.40	0.72	0.51	0.96	1	0.94	0.92	0.96
TW	0.40	0.77	0.55	0.89	0.94	1	0.82	0.90
BW	0.37	0.66	0.41	0.95	0.92	0.82	1	0.94
EW	0.40	0.66	0.36	0.98	0.96	0.90	0.94	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.