Postweaning Performance of Hair and Wool Sheep and Reciprocal-crosses on Pasture and in Feedlot

Authors

M. A. Brown, USDA-ARS
H. S. Mayeux, USDA-ARS

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2005

Comments

Published in Sheep & Goat Research Journal, Volume 20, 2005.

Abstract

Lambs from three diallel-mating plans (Dorset-St. Croix, n=140; Rambouillet-Gulf Coast, n=80; Katahdin-Suffolk, n=78) and a terminal-cross mating plan (Suffolk rams mated to Dorset, St. Croix and reciprocal-cross ewes, n=100) were used to evaluate postweaning grazing performance of traditional meat breeds and tropically adapted breeds of sheep.