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Performance traits of purebred Ossimi and Rahmani lambs and their crosses with Finnsheep born under two accelerated mating systems
Faculty
Agriculture
Year:
2009
Type of Publication:
Article
Pages:
497-511
Authors:
Marai, Ibrahim Fayez Mahmoud, Daader, Ahmed Hassan, Bahgat, Layla Bekir
Journal:
ARCHIV FUR TIERZUCHT-ARCHIVES OF ANIMAL BREEDING ARCHIV FUR TIERZUCHT
Volume:
52
Research Area:
Agriculture
ISSN
ISI:000271057500006
Keywords :
carcass, crossbreds, Finnsheep, growth, mating systems, Ossimi, Rahmani, reproductive traits, trait indices
Abstract:
The aim of the study was to carry out crossing of the local breeds with a known prolific breed with the hope to be a beginning to develop improved synthetic lines under the sub-tropical conditions. In the present study, the data represented 4 genotypes: 2 pure Egyptian local fat-tailed breeds {[}Ossimi (O) and Rahmani (R)], one back-cross {[}1/4 Finnish Landrace (F) 3/4 O] and one 3-breed-cross {[}1/4 F 1/4 O 1/2 R]. The lambs resulted from two accelerated systems: 3 lambings/2 years and 2 lambings/1 year. The results showed that in 3 lambings/2 years and 2 lambings/1 year systems, the crossbred lambs were significantly (P<0.01 or 0.05) higher in most of the growth traits, carcass characteristics and weight of ewe lambs at first mating, and were significantly (P<0.01) lower in percentages of the tail and bone and age of ewe lambs at first mating than in their maternal (local) breeds. Spring born lambs were significantly (P<0.01 or 0.05) higher than those born in the other seasons of the year in body weights at 16 and 24 weeks of age and daily gain weight during 0-<8 weeks in 3 lambings/2 years system, and in daily gain weight during the period 8-<16weeks of age in 2 lambings/1 year system. When using some indices based on combining a number of economic traits of the study (including slaughter weight, feed efficiency, dressing percentage, percentage of lean in the carcass, conception rate, lambing rate and average litter size) to compare the crossbreds with the local ones, the obtained values were not in favour of the crossbreds, which may throw some shadows on feasibility of applying crossing of the Egyptian local sheep with the Finnsheep. Comparison between the two mating systems showed that the 3 matings/2 years surpassed the 2 matings/1 year system in all the indices developed. When calculating the productive efficiency per one year by combining the traits: survivals ratio - that equals: 1 -(mortality rate at 8 weeks) - and frequency of lambing per one year, the values were 15.0 and 13.2\% in the two systems, respectively, confirming the previous results.
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