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A note on the effect of docking on fat deposition in fat-tailed sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

D. M. Joubert  and
L. Ueckermann
D. M. Joubert
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute of the Transvaal Region, Pretoria, South Africa
L. Ueckermann
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute of the Transvaal Region, Pretoria, South Africa
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Summary

The deposition of body and subcutaneous fat was compared in two groups of fat-tailed sheep, the one group docked shortly after birth and the tails of the other left intact. The slightly heavier live and carcass weights of the latter animals could be accounted for almost entirely by their significantly heavier weights of caudal fat, there being no firm evidence in support of increased internal or subcutaneous fatty deposition following amputation of the cauda.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 1971 , pp. 191 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1971

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