Effect of Nutrition of the Dam on Wool Follicle Development of Corriedale Lambs

P.M. Williams and AE Henderson

Lincoln College, Canterbury

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Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production. 1971, 31: 114-120

Measurements were made of wool follicle ratios and rate of fleece development of Corriedale lambs produced and reared by ewes receiving supplements of normal and Forman-treated casein. Body growth and fleece development were faster in lambs from ewes receiving Forman-treated casein and these lambs also had a larger Sf + Si/Pf ratio at birth (P<0.1)

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