Table 4.
Construction material for chicken houses, housing equipment and feeding system used by 163 smallholder farmers across six agro-ecological zones of Oman1
| Variable | Agro-ecological zone2 | Mean | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| MU n = 30 |
BT n = 30 |
NH n = 30 |
EH n = 28 |
EC n = 25 |
DF n = 20 |
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| Construction material | |||||||
| Wooden and iron sheet | 50.1 | 50.7 | 66.7 | 67.8 | 92.0 | 69.2 | 66.1 |
| Concrete/mud | 29.9 | 39.4 | 23.3 | 21.4 | 4.0 | 20.4 | 23.1 |
| Palm leaves and fences | 20.0 | 9.9 | 10.0 | 10.8 | 4.0 | 10.4 | 10.9 |
| Existence of management assets | |||||||
| Brooding lamp | 20.0 | 26.7 | 16.2 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 27.2 |
| Laying nests | 43.3 | 53.3 | 43.3 | 28.6 | 8.7 | 39.8 | 36.1 |
| Air circulation fans | 8.0 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 5.2 | 6.7 |
| Approved feeders and water troughs | 36.6 | 71.9 | 58.0 | 22.2 | 20.3 | 75.9 | 47.5 |
| Feeding system | |||||||
| Scavenging only | 33.5 | 26.7 | 33.3 | 47.1 | 53.5 | 55.0 | 41.5 |
| Use of commercial supplements | 66.5 | 73.3 | 66.7 | 52.9 | 46.5 | 45.0 | 58.5 |
1
All values are percentages of use by farmers in the different zones and across the zones (last column). Sums of percentages per category can deviate from 100.
2
Agro-ecological zone: Musandam (MU), Batinah (BT), North Hajar (NH), East Hajar (EH), East Coast (EC), Dhofar (DF).