Article
Performance of hair breeds and prolific wool breeds of sheep in southern Illinois: lamb production of F1 adult ewes.
Journal of animal science - 1 Jun 1995
Bunge R, Thomas D L, Nash T G
Abstract excerpt
Two- and three-year-old F1 crossbred ewes produced from Suffolk and Targhee dams and sires of the prolific wool breeds of Finnsheep, Combo-6, and Booroola Merino and the hair breeds of St. Croix and Barbados were pasture-mated to Dorset rams over a 4-yr period at the Dixon Springs Agricultural Ce...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Breeding
- Female
- Hair
- Homozygote
- Illinois
- Male
- Ovulation
- Reproduction
- Sex Characteristics
- Sheep
- Wool
