Effct Of Docking On The Characteristics Of The Fleece In Fat-Tailed Sheep

The Skin is the organ with animal meets its environment. The fleece therefore, forms an important component of the anatomy and physiology of the sheep. The Histological and morphological characteristics of sheep fleece may be good indexes for the effects of both environmental and genetical facetors affecting the characters of their fleece and give some idea of genetical properties of the animals.This investigation was conduted to study the effect of docking, sex and age on histological structure of skin and fleece charcteristics in rahmani sheep.