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Growth potential and feed intake capacity of spanish sheep breeds from weaning to maturity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

M. R. Cropper ,
G. Flores  and
J. Zea
M. R. Cropper
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones Agrarias de Mabegondo, Apartado de.Correos 10, 15080 A Coruña, Spain.
G. Flores
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones Agrarias de Mabegondo, Apartado de.Correos 10, 15080 A Coruña, Spain.
J. Zea
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones Agrarias de Mabegondo, Apartado de.Correos 10, 15080 A Coruña, Spain.
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One of the principal restraints on the productivity of sheep in Less Favoured Areas of the EC is the small size of the native breeds which can only produce light finished carcases. The experiment reported here forms part of a collaborative study made between centres in Spain, Greece (Zygoyiannis, Stamataris and Katsaounis, 1993) and Great Britain (Friggens, Kyriazakis, Shanks and McClelland, 1993) aimed at assessing and comparing the potential and feed intake capacity of nine lesser known, small-sized European sheep breeds.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1993: Winter meeting , March 1993 , pp. 26
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1993

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Friggens, N., Kyriazakis, I., Shanks, M. and McClelland, H. (1993) This meetingCrossRefGoogle Scholar
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