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Indian Journal of Animal Research, volume 51 issue 5 (october 2017) : 813-816

Genetic studies on growth, reproduction and wool production traits in Harnali sheep

Lalit, Z.S. Malik, D.S. Dalal, C.S. Patil, S.P. Dahiya
1<p>Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding,&nbsp;Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar-125 004, Haryana,&nbsp;&nbsp;India.</p>
Cite article:- Lalit, Malik Z.S., Dalal D.S., Patil C.S., Dahiya S.P. (2016). Genetic studies on growth, reproduction and wool productiontraits in Harnali sheep . Indian Journal of Animal Research. 51(5): 813-816. doi: 10.18805/ijar.10984.

ABSTRACT

Data on growth, reproduction and wool traits of 1603 Harnali sheep maintained at Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar over a period of 22 years (1992-2013) were utilized for genetic analysis. The overall least squares mean for birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW), six month body weight (SMW), age at first lambing (AFL), weight at lambing (WL), average lambing interval (ALI), greasy fleece weight (GFW), staple length (SL) and Fibre diameter (FD) were estimated as 3.35±0.02 kg, 12.41±0.08 kg, 16.30±0.12 kg, 707.05±2.07 days, 26.91±0.10 kg and 402.85±2.40 days, 1.62±0.02 kg, 5.65±0.03 cm and 25.85±0.07 µ, respectively. The effect of year of birth, sex of lamb and dam’s weight at lambing were significant for all growth traits. The effect of year of birth and dam’s weight at lambing were significant for all reproduction traits and GFW. No definite trend was observed over the years for body weights and reproductive traits. The effect of sex was significant for early growth traits. The heritability estimates were moderate for all the growth traits with high genetic correlations of BW and WW with SMW. Reproduction traits had lower estimates of heritability which indicated presence of lower additive genetic variance for these traits. Heritability estimates for studied wool traits were moderate to high. Positive genetic and phenotypic correlation of BW and WW with six month body weight and grease fleece weight indicated that selection for six month body weight would increase body weight and grease fleece weight.

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