FACTORS INFLUENCING BODY WEIGHTS AT DIFFERENT AGES IN THALLI SHEEP

Ali Hussain, Pervez Akhtar, Safdar Ali, Muhammad Younas, Muhammad Yaqoob, Masroor Ellahi Babar, Khalid Javed, Abdul Shakoor

The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences · 2013 · 11 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

Thalli is native sheep breed of Thall area of the Punjab, Pakistan. Data on 17030 birth records of 5421 Thalli sheep maintained at Livestock Experiment S tation, Rakh Ghulaman, district Bhakkar during 1975 -2004 were utilized in the present study with the aimto evaluate the performance of Thalli sheep in Pakistan. The genetic parameter estimation was performedusingREML procedurebyfitting an Individual A nimal Model.Birth weightwith an average of

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