OPTIMAL BREEDING AGE FOR THE WEST AFRICAN DWARF SHEEP IN IBADAN
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چکیده
Observations on the age at first breeding of West African Dwarf Sheep University Ibadan. Nigeria showed that optimal and weight 1st young ewes was not less than eleven months least 13kg respectively When mated earlier, incidence abortion increased lambs tended to smaller birth. In older ages lengthening generation internal unacceptable. The relalionuship between (4 ) (X) from four 56 weeks estitnated as: Y (kg) = 3.12 + 9.62 x — 0.02 2 0.0002 3 for singles. or =2.59 0.46 0.01 x2 0.0001 Mins.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nigerian Journal of Animal Production
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0331-2062']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.51791/njap.v10i.2709