Heritabilities, genetic and phenotypic correlations between carcass and live animal traits in sheep

Heritabilities, genetic and phenotypic correlations between carcass and live animal traits in sheep

Menzies, C.S.; Wheat, J.D.; Mackintosh, D.L.; Kropf, D.H.

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Publication Date: 1964

Conference: 51st Annual Livestock Feeders’ Day, Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Manhattan, Kansas, May 2, 1964
Starting Page: 3, Ending Page: 4
Publisher: Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station

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Abstract:

Data were collected on 94 lambs of known breeding born the fall of 1962. The lams were from ewes in the original fine-wool flock sired by eight unrelated Suffolk yearling rams. This was the ewes fourth lam crop.

Keywords: Sheep; Heritability; Genetic; Carcass characteristics

URL for this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8506

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