Breeding prolific Garole with Malpura sheep for increased reproductive efficiency in semi arid tropics of India

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 737-742

  Sharma, R C ^a,b   Arora, A L ^a   Mishra, A K ^a   Kumar, S ^a   Singh, V K ^a  

^a CENTRAL SHEEP AND WOOL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Equine Production Campus ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Garole Crosses; Performance Traits; Reproduction; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LAMB; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 4344566932     PISSN: 10112367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.2004.737     Document Type: Article

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