Relationship of fat-tail and body measurements with some economic important traits in fat-tail makoei breed of Iranian sheep

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 5989-5992

  Farahani, A H Khaltabadi ^a   Shahrbabak, H Moradi ^b,c   Shahrbabak, M Moradi ^b   Yeganeh, H Mehrabani ^b  

^a ARAK UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b University College of Agriculture   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Carcass composition; Fat tailed sheep; Makoei breed

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREED; CARCASS; IRAN; MESENTERY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OMENTUM; SHEEP; TAIL;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77957339796     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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