CHARACTERISTICS AND PRODUCTION OF OLD-TYPE NAVAJO SHEEP

1 May 1943

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Heredity

Vol. 34 (5) , 141-152
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a105269

Abstract

A description is given of the characteristics and production of old-type Navajo sheep from 1936 to 1942, inclusive, maintained at the Southwestern Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory. Certain characters descr. are rarely found among domestic sheep on Western ranges. Data on maturity, conformation, wool quality. and physiol. factors are presented and compared with those for improved breeds of sheep. The quality of carcass and wool are discussed in relation to the economics of the Navajo sheep industry.

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