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The effects of genotype of crossbred ewes, evaluated under lowland conditions, on lamb output

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

L. E. R. Dawson  and
A. F. Carson
L. E. R. Dawson
Affiliation:
The Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6DR, U.K.
A. F. Carson
Affiliation:
The Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6DR, U.K.
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Lowland sheep farmers in Northern Ireland depend heavily on the hill sector for replacement breeding ewes. Thus changes in the genetics of the ewes and rams used in the hills are likely to have major implications on the performance of lowland breeding ewes. Crossbred females were produced in the study by Carson et al. (2000) as a result of crossing Scottish Blackface and Wicklow Cheviot ewes with a range of sire breeds. The objective of this study was to provide information on the productivity of these crossbred females for lowland producers.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2000 , 2000 , pp. 67
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2000

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References

Carson, A.F., Irwin, D. and Kilpatrick, D.J. (2000). A comparison of Scottish Blackface and Wicklow Cheviot ewes and five sire breeds in terms of lamb output in hill sheep systems. Animal Science (submitted)CrossRefGoogle Scholar