Table 2.

Mean annual sheep and goat abortions percentage in three Agroecology and production system of Ethiopia.

Ago-ecology and production	Species	No. of flock examined	No. at risk	No. aborted (mean)	Abortion percentage (%) (±SD)
Overall		541	4,995	1,013 (1.9)	14.15 (24.78)
Lowland MCL	Goat	114	1,682	380 (3.33)	22.23 (27.71)
	Sheep	102	643	72 (0.67)	21.20 (26.19)
Lowland Pastoral	Goat	128	1,698	480 (3.75)	10.52 (23.56)**
	Sheep	123	828	79 (0.63)	12.01 (24.25)8*
Highland MCL	Sheep	65	144	2 (0.03)	0.00 (0.00)**
Total	Goat	242	3,380	860 (3.55)	16.11 (26.23)
	Sheep	290	1,615	153 (0.51)	12.55 (23.45)

^*Significant at p ≤ 0.01,

^**p ≤ 0.001, SD = standard deviation.