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STUDY OF PHENOTYPIC INDICES OF LOCAL SHEEP AND GOATS | ||
| Basrah Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 2, Volume 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-24 PDF (0 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.33762/bagrs.2010.56623 | ||
| Author | ||
| Hussein A. Abdul-Latif | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study was conducted by using 650 records of sheep and goats bred at Animal Farm/ College of Agriculture/ University of Basra. The aim was to calculate some of phenotypic indices for sheep and goats. The indices included height slope, body length, body width, body depth, balance and accumulative. Body measurements used to calculate these indices were body height at whether, body length, body height at tail, distance between bin bone, length of front legs, chest width and chest circumference. Body measurements of sheep exceeded that of goats significantly. These measurements showed high and positive correlations. By calculating the indices, sheep was nearly a beef animal than goats, as shown by accumulative index, body length and the balance of front legs (1.80, 1.01 and 1.08 for sheep and 1.18, 0.98 and 0.85 for goats respectively). The coefficient of variance between two species clearly introduce that there are a great chance to improve those animals through selection depending on these indices. As well as there were highly significant correlations between height slope index and body length index or height slope index and cumulative index. Heart girth considered as best body weight predictor for both species. | ||
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