Acta Veterinaria Eurasia
Research Article

THE FERTILITY OF KIVIRCIK AND SAKIZ X KIVIRCIK CROSSBRED F1 EWES AND THE SURVIVAL RATE OF THEIR LAMBS

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İstanbul Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Zootekni Anabilim Dalı, 34320 Avcılar, İstanbul

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İstanbul Üniversitesi, Veteriner Fakültesi, Zootekni Anabilim Dalı, 34320 Avcılar, İstanbul, Türkiye

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Department of Animal Breeding. Burdur Veterinary Faculty, Akdeniz University, 15100, Burdur.

Acta Vet Eurasia 2002; 28: 155-161
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This study was carried out to obtain crossbred F, ewes having prolific birth characteris­tic and being appropriate dam line for commercial crossbreeding. For the fertility traits of the 80 F1 (Sakız x Kıvırcık) ewes the birth rate was 87.50%, prolific birth rate was 62.86% and litter size was 1.84. For the Kı­vırcık ewes, the number of ewes exposed was 62 and the birth rate, prolific birth rate and litter size were 91.94%, 24.56% and 1.25, respectively. The survival rate at 75th day of age for 129 crossbred slaughter lambs was 75.97% and for 71 Kıvırcık lambs was 92.96%.

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