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Effect of low skin surface temperature on wool growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

A. M. Downes  and
J. C. D. Hutchinson
A. M. Downes
Affiliation:
C.S.I.R.O., Division of Animal Physiology, The Ian Clunies Ross Animal Research Laboratory, Prospect, N.S.W., Australia
J. C. D. Hutchinson
Affiliation:
C.S.I.R.O., Division of Animal Physiology, The Ian Clunies Ross Animal Research Laboratory, Prospect, N.S.W., Australia
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Summary

The length of wool grown per day, on closely clipped patches of the skin of two sheep exposed to an ambient temperature of 2 °C for 4 days, was reduced to 30% of normal. For individual fibres, this decrease was directly proportional to their normal growth. Fibre diameter was not affected. Growth in a warm 4-day period succeeding the cold period returned to normal and remained normal thereafter.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , January 1969 , pp. 155 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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