Meat quality and carcass composition are the most important economic traits in sheep. Body fat and fat-tail are key factors affecting carcass quality and meat production in each breed, and mutations in sequences of the genes that control these traits can affect the animal performance and therefore the breeding value. The aim of this study was to investigate the polymorphism in some regions...

In this study external fat-tail dimensions (upper, middle and lower width, length, length of gap, depth and upper circumference) and fat-tail weights collected on 724 Lori-Bakhtiari sheep were used to study external fat-tail dimensions and their relationships with fat-tail weights. Sheep were 3 months to 6 years old and slaughtered at the industrial slaughter house of Joneghan in Chaharmohal an...

In this study external fat-tail dimensions (upper, middle and lower width, length, length of gap, depth and upper circumference) and fat-tail weights collected on 724 Lori-Bakhtiari sheep were used to study external fat-tail dimensions and their relationships with fat-tail weights. Sheep were 3 months to 6 years old and slaughtered at the industrial slaughter house of Joneghan in Chaharmohal an...

Growth rate of 60 Lori-Bakhtiari single male lambs were assigned to a completely randomized design with two factors. The factors were tail status (with and without fat tail) and fattening period ( 75,90, 105 days). Lambs were alternately docked by the use of rubber rings at the begining of the second day of birth. Lambs were weaned at 90±5 days of age and randomly divided into three groups...

growth rate of 60 lori-bakhtiari single male lambs were assigned to a completely randomized design with two factors. the factors were tail status (with and without fat tail) and fattening period ( 75,90, 105 days). lambs were alternately docked by the use of rubber rings at the begining of the second day of birth. lambs were weaned at 90±5 days of age and randomly divided into three groups...

Transcription factor 7 gene (TCF7) is located on genomic candidate region for fat traits on sheep chromosome no. 5  and it is excepted to affect fat traits. In the present study, blood samples were collected from 164 Lori-Bakhtiari sheep in Shouli breeding station  located at Shahr-e-Kord city, and 113 Zel sheep in Shirang breeding station located at Gorgan city. DNA was extracted from blood sa...

the main objective in sampling is to select a sample from a population in order to estimate some unknown population parameter, usually a total or a mean of some interesting variable. a simple way to take a sample of size n is to let all the possible samples have the same probability of being selected. this is called simple random sampling and then all units have the same probability of being ch...