Table 6.

Major feed resources of sheep during the dry and wet seasons in the study area

Feed Resources	Wet season								Dry season
	Highland					Mid-altitude			Highland					Mid-altitude
	1st	2nd	3rd	Index	1st	2nd	3rd	Index	1st	2nd	3rd	Index	1st	2nd	3rd	Index
Natural pasture	100	–	–	0.54	100	–	–	0.62	15.2	50	23.4	0.28	37.5	43.8	10.9	0.36
Hay	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	0	–	6.2	14.1	0.04	–	–	–	0
Crop residues	–	95.3	–	0.34	–	92.2	–	0.37	45.42	27.8	6.5	0.33	50	40.6	–	0.40
Fallow land	–	–	42.2	0.08	–	1.6		0.01	1.6	–	25	0.05	3.1	14.1	1.6	0.07
Concentrates	–	–	3.1	0.01	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	0	–	–	21.9	0.04
Enset leaf and stem	–	–	18.8	0.03	–	–	–	0	23.4	6.2	25	0.18	–	1.6	26.9	0.05
Bamboo leaf	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	14.5	9.7	6	0.12	–	–	–	0
Sugar cane tops	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9.4	–	20	0.08

Index = sum of (3 × number of household ranked first + 2 × number of household ranked second +1 × number of household ranked third) given for each variable divided by sum of (3 × number of household ranked first +2 × number of household ranked second +1 × number of household ranked third) for all variables