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AgricultureCrossbreeding is widely used to improve livestock performance, combining favorable breed traits through additive effects while maintaining genetic diversity.
Rūta Šveistienė, Violeta Razmaitė
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Inbreeding Depression and Purging for Meat Performance Traits in German Sheep Breeds [PDF]
Animals, 2023 This study provides estimates on genetic parameters, inbreeding depression and purging for meat performance measures from 25 German sheep breeds. All German meat, merino sheep breeds and breeds of other breeding directions with a sufficient number of ...
Cathrin Justinski +2 more
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Improving Growth Rates in Turcana Indigenous Sheep Breed Using German Blackheaded Mutton Rams
Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 Improving growth rates in indigenous Turcana breed should be one of the most important objectives for sheep specialists, do to the fact that over 70% of the sheep population from Romania is represented by the breed.
Dinu Gavojdian +4 more
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Comparative Study Regarding Body Weight in Turcana and R1 German Blackheaded x Turcana yearling ewes
Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 Researches were carried out in a commercial sheep farm from Arad county, situated in western Romania. Yearling ewes, with their age ranging from 12 to 13 months were included in the trial. Two genotypes were considered, purebred indigenous Turcana (TA, n
Ioan Padeanu +5 more
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Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 Aim of the research was to evaluate the effects that backcrossing of the German Blackheaded Mutton (GBM) breed with indigenous Turcana (TUR) breed have on the growth rates, slaughter yields and carcass quality, compared with animals from purebreed ...
Ioan-Walter Sauer +5 more
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Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 Researches were carried out in a commercial sheep farm from Arad County, situated in western Romania. Yearling ewes, with their age ranging from 12 to 13 months were included in the trial. Two genotypes were considered, purebred indigenous Turcana (TA, n
Ioan Pădeanu +6 more
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Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 The current study was conducted to evaluate Dorper, Hampshire Down, Bluefaced Leicester and German Blackheaded breeds as terminal sires in an extensive low-input production system under European temperate conditions, when crossed with native Turcana ...
Dinu Gavojdian +5 more
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The effect of temperament on weight gain of Hungarian Merino, German Merino and German Blackhead lambs [PDF]
Archives Animal Breeding, 2008 Abstract. We evaluated temperament of sheep using two temperament tests: temperament score test and flight test. Temperament score test: behaviour of animals was assessed in a 5-score system while weighing, spending 30 s on the scale. Flight time test: the time taken by an animal to move a set distance (1.7 m) after exiting a weighing scale into an ...
Pajor, F. +4 more
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Effects of Pasture Quality and Feeding Management on Carcass Quality in Lambs
Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 Current research aimed to evaluate the effects of pasture quality and feeding management on carcass quality in fattening lambs in pasture based finishing systems.
Walter-Ioan Sauer +5 more
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Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2006 Bu çalışma, Marmara Hayvancılık Araştırma Enstitüsü'nde yetiştirilen saf Kıvırcık, Siyah Başlı Alman Et Koyunu SBA ve SBA X Kıvırcık F1, SBA X F1 G koyunlarının Bandırma çevre koşullarına fizyolojik tepkilerini ortaya koymak amacıyla yürütülmüştür.
Cüneyt Kaptan +4 more
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