Table 5.

Health and reproductive management of chickens under the village production system (% of respondents)

Factor	Farta	Mandura	Horro	Konso	Sheka	Total
Vaccination and immunization
No	96	100	91	98	88	95
Yes	4	0	9	2	12	5
Curative medication
No	79	50	30	47	51	51
Yes	21	50	70	53	49	49
Mating system
Uncontrolled, natural	100	100	100	100	100	100
Controlled	0	0	0	0	0	0
Incubation method
Natural (Broody hen)	100	100	100	100	100	100
Artificial incubation	0	0	0	0	0	0
Broody behavior modification
Nothing	12	36	14	13	43	24
Hanging upside-down	19	18	59	46	27	33
Moving to neighbor houses	69	41	16	0	24	33
Submerge into water up to the breast	0	2	2	0	0	1
Change brooding place	0	3	9	42	6	9