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Performance of the Santa Ines breed raised on pasture in semiarid tropical regions and factors that explain trait variation.
Tropical animal health and production - 1 Oct 2014
de Farias Jucá Adriana, Faveri Juliana Cantos, Melo Filho Geraldo Magalhães, de Lisboa Ribeiro Filho Antônio, Azevedo Hymerson Costa, Muniz Evandro Neves, Pinto Luís Fernando Batista
Abstract excerpt
This study aimed to evaluate sex, the number of lambs per birth, and the family effects on production traits in the Santa Ines breed of sheep by estimating the least square means and coefficient of variance for those traits. A total of 484 lambs were evaluated for the following traits: weight at birth, at weaning, and at 240 days of age; weight gain during the pre-weaning and post-weaning periods; height, width,...
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