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 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.

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Sheep, Heritability, Genetic, Carcass characteristics

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