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The Relationship Of Ewe Body Mass To Lamb Production, Sebhatu Gebrelul
The Relationship Of Ewe Body Mass To Lamb Production, Sebhatu Gebrelul
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Body size was estimated by multiplying the average of the hip and chest widths by body length and chest depth in 208 ewes of three genotypes: Targhee x Targhee (TXT), Finn x Targhee (FXT), and Suffolk x Targhee (SXT), and two seasons, fall (pre-breeding) and spring (post-lambing). The estimated ewe body size did not fluctuate with season, body condition or physiological stress and proved to be a constant measure of size. Measuring linear body dimension is time consuming; and hence ewe body size can best be approximated by the chest depth in a regression equation. In the absence of linear …