Caractérisation morphologique des caprins dans la région de Sétif.

Abstract

A morphological characterization of a local goat population was conducted in the region of Setif. The objective of this study was to characterize the goat population in the region of Setif, in order to have better understanding of goat genetic resources which remains little until now, the body were performed an 575 females and 125 over 14 municipalities in the region. This study examined 72 variables, 12 quantitative and 10 qualitative, the collected data were subjected to analysis of variance and a discriminant factoranalysis. Our results showed that the length of the head (LH), and the height at the back (HB) , were the most discriminant variables for axis 1, the length of the ears (LE) and hips to the length of the second axis in females, and in males the length of the head (LH), and thurl width (TW)for the first function and chest circumference (CC) and the height at sacrum (HS) for the second function, the classification rate was 73,6% in females, and 81,6% in males .