Lamb weight and growth

16 December 2016
Focus area: Food safety
Program stream: Product & process integrity
Several key production factors influence lamb weights, as found in the Sheep CRC Information Nucleus flocks.

Lamb factors include sex, birth type (single, twin or triplet) and sibling competition during rearing (rear type: single, twin or triplet), as well as the type of sire of the lamb (maternal, terminal or Merino).

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