Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rdxmf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-02T22:23:40.207Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Genetic Parameters of Body Weights in Hill Sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

K.D. Atkins
K.D. Atkins*
Affiliation:
AFRC Animal Breeding Research Organisation, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JQ
Get access

Extract

There are few published studies on the genetics of body growth to maturity in sheep. Such information is required for choosing an optimal time of selection for body weight and to predict correlated responses to selection at all stages of an animal's lifetime. The data were derived from a randomly selected control flock of Scottish Blackface sheep on a hard heather hill research farm in Peeblesshire, Scotland. The objectives of the analysis were to estimate the heritability of body weight at various ages between birth and maturity, and the genetic correlations between these weights.

Type
Genetics
Information
Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1984 , March 1984 , pp. 45
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1984

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Purser, A.F. (1965) Anim. Prod. 7; 75–82.Google Scholar