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Milk production and composition, and progeny performance in young ewes with high merit for rapid growth and muscle and fat accumulation.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Nov 2018
Rosales Nieto C A, Ferguson M B, Macleay C A, Briegel J R, Wood D A, Martin G B, Bencini R, Thompson A N
Abstract excerpt
In ewe lambs, acceleration of growth and accumulation of both muscle and fat leads to earlier sexual maturity and better reproductive performance. The next stage in the development of this theme is to test whether these aspects of growth in young ewes affect milk production in their first lactation and the growth of their first progeny. We studied 75 young Merino ewes that had known phenotypic values for depth of...
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