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Quality Improvement of Dumba Fleece Using Dehairing Technique and Value Addition of Recovered Wool

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022
The wool of Dumba fleece is an admixture of fine wool and coarse hairy fibers. (Tomer, ) The use of the slow speed carding machinerecovers fine wool fibers accounts 19.6% of fleece weight.
Ajay Kumar, Dinesh Babu Shakyawar, Nehru Lal Meena, Syed Mohammed Khursheed Naqvi   +3 more
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Impact of Booroola fecundity gene introgression on sheep production: Indian perspective

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2021
Surge of demand for meat from diverse sources in a time of decling land and other natural resources shifted the trend of producing more sheep per sheep. Prolificacy aspect in sheep can be used as an important arsenal to fulfil this objective.
ARUN KUMAR, RAJIV KUMAR, S S MISRA, R C SHARMA   +3 more
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Methane emission, nutrient utilization, microbial protein synthesis and growth performance in finisher lambs fed complete feed blocks containing phytochemical-rich forages of semi-arid region

Carbon Management, 2020
Tree leaves of Ailanthus excelsa, Ziziphus nummularia and Prosopis cineraria were fed in complete feed block (CFB) to 36 weaner (91 d) lambs distributed equally (20.6 ± 0.55 kg) in three groups (T1, T2 and T3). The CFB of T1 consisted of 40% A.
Randhir Singh Bhatt, Artabandhu Sahoo, Lalit Kumar Soni, Priya Sharma   +3 more
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Reversion towards benzimidazole susceptibility in Haemonchus contortus by resistance management strategies

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2021
A study was aimed to observe the impact of withdrawal of anthelmintic type and increase in refugia through community dilution on reversion towards benzimidazole (BZ) susceptibility in Haemonchus contortus at an organized sheep farm in semi-arid ...
C P SWARNKAR, D SINGH, F A KHAN, S R SHARMA   +3 more
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Keratin Gene Expression Differences in Wool Follicles and Sequence Diversity of High Glycine-Tyrosine Keratin-Associated Proteins (Kaps) in Magra Sheep of India

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2020
Wool fibers consist of proteins with majority belongs to keratin family. Longitudinally arrayed keratin intermediate filaments constitute a matrix surrounded by keratin-associated proteins (KAPs).
Rajiv Kumar, A S Meena, Ashish Chopra, Arun Kumar   +3 more
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Dietary supplementation of plant bioactive-enriched aniseed straw and eucalyptus leaves modulates tissue fatty acid profile and nuggets quality of lambs

Animal, 2020
Utilization of low-input feed resources rich in plant bioactive compounds is a promising strategy for modulating the fatty acid profile in ruminant products.
R.S. Bhatt, A. Sahoo, S. Sarkar, L. Soni, P. Sharma, Y.P. Gadekar   +5 more
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Multifunctional Finishing of Woolens with Lemongrass Oil

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022
In the reported work, lemongrass oil was coated on the wool fabrics to impart multifunctional finish. During the treatment, chitosan was used as a crosslinking agent.
Munmee Gogoi, Vinod Kadam, Seiko Jose, DB Shakyawar, Binita Kalita   +4 more
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Fatty acid profile and nutrient composition of muscle and adipose tissue from Malpura and fat-tailed Dumba sheep

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2020
Fatty acid (FA) profile and nutrient composition of Longissimus dorsi (LD) muscle and various adipose tissues of adult Malpura sheep (4–6 years) and lambs (6 month), and fat tailed Dumba sheep (1 year) were evaluated.
R S BHATT, LALIT SONI, Y P GADEKAR, A SAHOO, SROBANA SARKAR, DAVENDRA KUMAR   +5 more
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Carcass characteristics of Patanwadi ram lambs maintained under intensive feeding system

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2020
The present study was aimed to evaluate the carcass traits of Patanwadi ram lambs at 6.9 months (207 days; Gr-1) and 9.6 months (288 days; Gr-2) maintained under an intensive feeding system.
Y P GADEKAR, A K SHINDE, GAURI JAIRATH, ARVIND SONI, R S BHATT   +4 more
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Assessment of population structure and genetic diversity of German Angora rabbit through pedigree analysis [PDF]

Animal Bioscience, 2023
Objective The main goals of this investigation were to i) assess the population structure and genetic diversity and ii) determine the efficiency of the ongoing breeding program in a closed flock of Angora rabbits through pedigree analysis.
Abdul Rahim, K. S. Rajaravindra, Om Hari Chaturvedi, S. R. Sharma   +3 more
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