FACE COVER STUDY
“The lowered fertility associated with woolly faced sheep is probably associated with general fitness—that is, a lesser ability to stand up to difficult environments,” says the annual report of the Wool Research Organisa-
tion referring to investigations made by Massey University of Manawatu, with Wool Research Organisation funds, into the physiological basis of the relationship between wool growth on the face and
fertility and general fitness. From this work it is hoped to find methods of selecting sheep with high general fitness for the more difficult environments without loss in wool production.
“The field experiments with the face cover flock have now pin-pointed slower growth of the woolly-faced hogget over the winter as the first main effect of face cover in a sheep’s life. . . .”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30823, 7 August 1965, Page 9
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