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Study of Main Morph-Productive Characteristic Features in a Sheep Population of Tsigai Breed from Cluj County

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Sheep breeders provide valuable food products (meat, milk, fat) and popular materials for light industry (wool, skins, leather, etc.) thus contributing to the country's economic program and to improve the living standards. The biological material was represented by the following categories of animals: sheep mothers, rams, ewes, young males, which have pursued productive morphological traits as conformation and physical development, milk and wool production and breeding obtained data were statistically processed by usual methods of sheep breeding. The studied population of Tsigai is a mixed one for wool production skills semi-milk-meat and genotypic characteristics show to be for a homogeneous population.

Source: Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca Animal Science and Biotechnologies

DOI: 10.15835/buasvmcn-asb:68:1-2:6664