An overview of the Merino Lifetime Productivity Project

A M M Ramsay; B C Swain; A A Swan

An overview of the Merino Lifetime Productivity Project

A M M Ramsay
, B C Swain
, A A Swan

Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit

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Abstract

The Merino industry has raised a number of concerns about the current practice of selecting animals at a very young age and its association with lifetime production. Further, with the diversification of the Merino to include a combination of wool, carcase, disease resistance and reproduction attributes, there is a need to create a dataset that will allow the quantification of genetic parameters for lifetime production, and to understand the biological and economic trade-offs between these production elements.

Original language	English
Pages	iv-iv
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2018
Event	Animal Production 2018: 32nd Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production - Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia Duration: 2 Jul 2018 → 4 Jul 2018

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Conference	Animal Production 2018: 32nd Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production
City	Wagga Wagga, Australia
Period	2/07/18 → 4/07/18

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