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Special Field Days For Merino Breeders, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Special Field Days For Merino Breeders, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
More than 200 Merino stud breeders attended special stud breeding and fertility field days arranged for them by the Department of Agriculture recently.
Breeders attending represented some 40 per cent of the State's Merino studs.
Twinning Increases Production, K P. Croker
Twinning Increases Production, K P. Croker
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Many breeders claim that twinning causes too many losses among Merino lambs and does not favour breeding for twin lamb production.
But recent experiments have proved otherwise and agricultural scientists now agree that . . .
TWINNING INCREASES PRODUCTION
THE low marking percentages regularly recorded for Merino flocks suggest that the Merino is a relatively infertile breed.
Certainly, lambing percentages are low when compared with those of most British breeds of sheep.