Investigation of One Year Change in A Karacabey Merino Flock and Determination of The Fleece Quality of Lambs Obtained After Ram Mating
2023
Atav, Rıza | Ergunay, Ugur | Sen, Ayse | Bugdayci, Burhan | Unal, Pelin GURKAN | Unal, Emel OZKAN | Karagoz, Gokmen | Soysal, M Ihsan | Ozder, Muhittin | Arat, Sezen
About 90% of Turkey's sheep population is made up of native breeds, and about 10% of merino cross breeds. One of the Merino cross breeds is the Karacabey merino (Turkish merino) breed, which is a cross between German fleece/meat merino and Kıvırcık sheep. The aim of this study is to reveal the change in fleece fineness and length of Turkey’s fleece-oriented Karacabey Merino starter herd, which was established in May 2021 at the Training, Research and Application Farm of Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University Faculty of Agriculture, after 1 year of care and feeding. In addition, it was aimed to determine the fleece quality of lambs obtained from sheep and rams with high quality fleece. It is thought that these studies will shed light on the efforts to protect the fleece quality of the herd and to improve it with the new generation lambs. In the studies, it was determined that the change in the fleece fineness and length of the herd within 1 year was statistically insignificant (p<0.05) and the wool fineness of all lambs obtained from sheep and rams with high quality fleece met the criterion of being below 25 microns, which is necessary to produce worsted fabric.
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