Integration and adoption of climate resilient management practices for enhanced productivity of sheep and goats in pastoral communities of Northern Kenya

Pastoralism

Research, Policy and Practice

Table 3 Different categories of goats and sheep owned by the community innovation group households at baseline (2018) and monitoring (2021)

	The relative proportion of different categories of goats/sheep in a household flock (county)
	Isiolo			Marsabit			Turkana
	2018	2021	p -value	2018	2021	p -value	2018	2021	p -value
Goat category
Buck	0.10	0.29	***	0.08	0.25	***	0.17	0.29	***
Doe	0.30	0.13	***	0.39	0.10	***	0.30	0.52	***
Castrates	0.03	0.15	***	0.05	0.15	***	0.11	0.01	***
Buckling	0.06	0.19	***	0.14	0.18	ns	0.06	0.01	***
Doeling	0.19	0.17	***	0.18	0.15	*	0.21	0.02	ns
Kid female	0.16	0.04	***	0.08	0.06	ns	0.05	0.09	*
Kid male	0.09	0.02	***	0.07	0.10	ns	0.10	0.06	ns
Sheep category
Ewe	0.2	0.11	ns	0.2	0.17	ns	0.47	0.49	ns
Ram	0.08	0.32	***	0.03	0.29	***	0.1	0.27	***
Castrates	0.02	0.14	***	0.03	0.09	*	0.06	0.02	ns
Ram lamb	0.09	0.17	ns	0.12	0.1	ns	0.04	0	***
Ewe lamb	0.31	0.14	*	0.27	0.09	***	0.12	0.01	*
Lambkin female	0.09	0.06	ns	0.1	0.11	ns	0.02	0.05	ns
Lambkin male	0.09	0.07	ns	0.07	0.12	ns	0.06	0.04	ns