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Duckweed as a Protein Source for Fine-Wool Merino Sheep: Its Edibility and Effects on Wool Yield and Characteristics

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2018
Two experiments were carried out to investigate whether duckweed is useful as a dietary protein source for fine-wool Merino sheep and to evaluate its effects on wool yield and characteristics.
Damry, Damry, Bell, R E, Nolan, J V, Thomson, E S   +3 more
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Fleece Yield and Some Characteristics of Wool in Anatolian Merino Sheep

Selcuk Journal of Agricultural and Food Sciences, 2022
In this study, greasy fleece yield and some wool characteristics and the effects of gender, age and live weight on these characteristics were investigated in 60 heads of Anatolian Merino sheep reared in Babayakup neighborhood of Polatlı District of ...
Sertkaya, Şerife, Öztürk, Ayhan
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Studies on the Wool Yield of Sheep

Nihon Chikusan Gakkaiho, 1957
This study was conducted to investigate the variations in clean wool yield percentage among body regions and the relative reliability of each clean yield of 8 regions for predicting the clean yield percentage of the entire fleece of the Japanese Corriedale sheep.
Kazuo SUGAI, Hiroshi NAGASAWA
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Genetic studies on growth and production traits in German Angora Rabbits under sub-temperate climatic conditions

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2022
This study aimed to assess the effect of genetic and non-genetic factors on growth, wool yield and wool characteristics of German Angora rabbit. Data was collected on 607 adult rabbits over a period of four years (2018-2021).
ABDUL RAHIM, K S RAJARAVINDRA, OM HARI CHATURVEDI, RAJNI CHAUDHARY, S R SHARMA   +4 more
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Changes in Vegetative and Reproductive Growth and Quality Parameters of Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) cv. Chandler Grown at Different Substrates

Journal of Food Quality, 2021
Growth substrates (polyester wool, rice husk, and wheat straw), along with soil as control treatment, were compared for vegetative growth, yield, and quality of strawberry cv. Chandler.
Noosheen Zahid, Mehdi Maqbool, Abdul Hamid, Muhammad Shehzad, Majid Mahmood Tahir, Khuram Mubeen, Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed, Haseeb Ur Rehman, Mazhar Ali, Asgar Ali, Patrick O’Reilly, Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah   +11 more
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Physico-Mechanical Properties of Dupska Pramenka Wool as Breed Characterization Descriptors

Contemporary Agriculture, 2023
The characterization of animal genetic resources includes morphometric, production and genetic characterization. This paper aims to determine the annual yield, staple length, and physico-mechanical properties of the wool of the Dupska Pramenka sheep. The
Važić Božo, Rogić Biljana, Pihler Ivan, Steiner Zvonimir, Gantner Vesna   +4 more
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Effect of Biannual Shearing on Body Weight and some Wool Characteristics of Barki Ewes under Semi-Arid Conditions [PDF]

Journal of Animal and Poultry Production, 2019
Eighteen adult non-pregnant; non-lactating Barki ewes, aged 3-4 years with initial body weight of 36.71 ± 4.798 (kg) were randomly divided to three groups (n=6).
E. A. Taha
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External characteristics and live weight of fleshy and woolly sheep breed of Uzbekistan [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences, 2023
This article describes the beneficial economic characteristics-productivity, exterior characteristics and growth and development of offspring of fleshy-woolly sheep of Uzbekistan in different breeding periods.
Shayusupov Bobir, Shakirov Kakhramon
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Performance evaluation of Gurez sheep in farmer’s flocks—A threatened sheep breed of Kashmir

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2021
Gurez is an indigenous breed of sheep native to the Gurez Valley of J&K, India. Despite being a unique genetic resource, this breed is largely unexplored and meagre studies have been conducted on it.
MUBASHIR ALI RATHER, SHOWKAT AHMAD AHANGER, A HAMADANI, M MAROOF SHAH, MOHMMAD ASHRAF BABA, MUSTAFA KHALEEL   +5 more
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Epigenetic mechanism of Gtl2-miRNAs causes the primitive sheep characteristics found in purebred Merino sheep

Cell & Bioscience, 2023
Background It is not uncommon for some individuals to retain certain primitive characteristics even after domestication or long-term intensive selection.
Jiankui Wang, Guoying Hua, Jianfei Chen, Kai Cui, Zu Yang, Deping Han, Xue Yang, Xianggui Dong, Yuhao Ma, Ganxian Cai, Yuanyuan Zhang, Jinnan Li, Yurong Tai, Lai Da, Xinhai Li, Lina Ma, Qing Ma, Rui Li, Jianbin Liu, Hesham Y. A. Darwish, Keliang Wu, Weiheng Rong, Wansheng Liu, Yaofeng Zhao, Xuemei Deng   +24 more
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