Sheep body fats

I03. Sheep Body Fats T. Component Acids of Fats from Animals Fed on High and Low Planes of Nutrition by Thomas Percy Hilditch And

IN 1938 an investigation on the effects of different planes of nutrition of ewes upon the birth weight and growth of lambs was undertaken at the Animal Nutrition Institute of the School of Agriculture, Cambridge, by Dr Verges, with the result that two groups of ewes respectively of about 70 and 150 lb. live weight were obtained from the restricted and full diets given. Five of the 70 lb. animal...

Body condition scoring of sheep

A preliminary anatomical study on carotid body of Makouei sheep

The carotid is a small mass of chemoreceptor's and sustentacular cells that detects changes in the composition of the arterial blood. The aim of the present study was to identify the size, color, location, blood and nerve supply of the carotid body in Makouei sheep. Fourteen heads of sheep from both sexes were collected from Urmia public slaughter-house. The exact situation and nerve supply of ...

Estimating Genetic Parameters of Body Weight Traits in Kourdi Sheep

For estimating genetic parameters for body weight traits in Kourdi sheep data were collected from 1996 to 2013 in Kourdi Breeding Station in Northern Khorasan province of Iran. Studied traits were birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW), six-month weight (6MW), nine-month weight (9MW) and yearling weight (YW). The fixed effects in the model were lambing year, sex, type of birth and age of dam. (...

The Estimation of Body Weight from Body Measurements in Kilakarsal Sheep of Tamil Nadu, India

Data on body weight and body measurements (body length, height at withers, chest girth and paunch girth) of adult Kilakarsal sheep have been collected from 124 adult animals managed at the farmers filed in Tirunelveli districts of Tami Nadu, India to estimate the body weight from body measurements. The data were subjected to standard statistical analysis using SPSS software and linear regressio...