Breeding practices and trait preferences of smallholder farmers for indigenous sheep in the northwest highlands of Ethiopia: Inputs to design a breeding program

• Abiye Shenkut Abebe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: abiysh85@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Animal Production and Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Department of Animal Science, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3887-1376

  ⨯
• Kefyalew Alemayehu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Production and Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

  ⨯
• Anna Maria Johansson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9762-0497

  ⨯
• Solomon Gizaw

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  ⨯