Table 6 Odds ratio estimates, lower and upper confidence interval of ranking TDR, RE and BCS trait most in Nguni breeding cows
From: Preferential traits for breeding Nguni cattle in low-input in-situ conservation production systems
Predictor | Tick and disease resistance | Reproductive efficiency | Body condition score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(TDR) – Rank 1 | (RE) – Rank 2 | (BCS) – Rank 3 | |||||||
Odds ratio | Lower CI | Upper CI | Odds ratio | Lower CI | Upper CI | Odds ratio | Lower CI | Upper CI | |
Enterprise ownership pattern (communalvs small-scale) | 0.8455 | 0.1992 | 3.5896 | 0.9481 | 0.2324 | 3.8687 | 0.1212 | 0.0126 | 1.1668 |
Gender (male vs female) | 0.2133 | 0.0331 | 1.3747 | 0.6578 | 0.1126 | 3.8434 | 9.1578 | 1.1739 | 71.4392 |
Age (young < 50 vs old ≥50 years) | 1.5527 | 0.5388 | 4.4742 | 1.3332 | 0.4685 | 3.7935 | 0.3489 | 0.0833 | 1.4612 |
Education level (primary vs secondary) | 0.4368 | 0.1213 | 1.5726 | 0.7260 | 0.2275 | 2.3172 | 0.7836 | 0.1890 | 3.2491 |
Agriculture training (formal vs informal) | 0.2156 | 0.0240 | 1.9358 | 0.5353 | 0.0677 | 4.2332 | 0.4138 | 0.0376 | 4.5539 |