Repeated records on fertility, litter size, and ovulation rate of Rambouillet ewes and on
fertility and litter size of Finnsheep ewes were used to estimate heritabilities and …

Simple Summary As important prolific candidate genes, BMPR1B, BMP15, and GDF9 may
affect the lambing performance of sheep. Therefore, regarding the three FecB genotypes of …

Heritabilities (h2) and genetic correlations (rc) involving body weights, measures of testes
size and ewe lamb reproduction were calculated using 953 spring-born lambs produced …

Variance components were estimated for litter size in Rasa Aragonesa sheep, a meat breed
from northern Spain, to determine whether selective breeding for litter size is a reasonable …

This study was conducted to estimate the genetic and environmental components of
variation influencing various trails of economic importance in Kajli sheep. Data on 16,470 …

Abstract Small Tail Han (STH) sheep is a famous Chinese local breed and has perfect
prolificacy performance, but it is inferior to imported mutton sheep breeds on meat …

The means and the environmental effects for several reproductive characters were
estimated in 4 flocks of Rasa Aragonesa ewes submitted to intensive reproduction systems …

The analysis focused on model fitting of 2 ewe reproductive traits, litter size, and days to
lambing (interval between the introduction of the ram into the flock and the subsequent …

Wasted dates represent an energy-rich alternative feedstuff that can be locally exploited in
the south of Tunisia as a substitute to the more conventional barley grains in the sheep diets …

Data corresponding to weights from birth to 90 days of age of 4 425 lambs, and to 3 355
litters at lambing of 964 ewes, taken from 1987 to 1995 were used. The main objective of the …