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Correlated responses in lamb mortality due to long term selection for cannon bone length and fleece medullation in sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

R. I. Cue
R. I. Cue
Affiliation:
Animal Breeding Research Organisation, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JQ
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Abstract

Lamb mortality in a Scottish Blackface hill sheep flock subjected to long term selection for cannon bone length and fleece medullation score was investigated, using maximum likelihood analyses. The selection for cannon bone length and for medullation score had no significant effect on lamb mortality.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , October 1983 , pp. 293 - 299
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1983

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