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

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2011-04-28

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Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

Data was collected on 91 lambs of known breeding born during the fall, 1963. The lambs were from ewes in the original fine-wool flock and were sired by 10 performance-tested Hampshire rams. This was the ewes fifth lamb crop.

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Sheep, Carcass characteristics, Performance, Gain

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