Economics of liveweight in Western Australian merino flocks [sheep breeding]. [Seminar paper]
1986
Buchanan, A.N. (unaffil.) | Lewer, R.P. (Western Australian Dept. of Agriculture, Katanning. Animal Breeding and Research Inst.)
The results of an economic analysis of increasing average ewe liveweight with the correlated effects on clean fleece weight, fibre diameter and reproducive rate in a Merino flock are presented. The key results of increasing economic importance as: (i) the stocking rate increases, and (ii) the proportion of ewes in the flock increases. In the special case of an all-wether flock the reverse situation applied. That is, there are economic gains in running genetically smaller wethers.
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