Article
Genetic correlations between wool traits and meat quality traits in Merino sheep.
Journal of animal science - 1 Oct 2017
Mortimer S I, Hatcher S, Fogarty N M, van der Werf J H J, Brown D J, Swan A A, Jacob R H, Geesink G H, Hopkins D L, Edwards J E Hocking, Ponnampalam E N, Warner R D, Pearce K L, Pethick D W
Abstract excerpt
Genetic correlations between 29 wool production and quality traits and 25 meat quality and nutritional value traits were estimated for Merino sheep from an Information Nucleus (IN). Genetic correlations among the meat quality and nutritional value traits are also reported. The IN comprised 8 flocks linked genetically and managed across a range of sheep production environments in Australia. The wool traits...
Topics
- Animals
- Australia
- Body Weight
- Breeding
- Color
- Fatty Acids
- Female
- Iron
- Male
- Meat
- Nutritive Value
- Phenotype