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The effects of improved management based on ultrasound scanning of scottish blackface ewes from a high hill flock

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2017

M. Parker  and
A. Waterhouse
M. Parker
Affiliation:
West of Scotland Agricultural College, Animal Production Department, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
A. Waterhouse
Affiliation:
West of Scotland Agricultural College, Animal Production Department, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
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The objective of the study was to assess the potential benefits of using real-time ultrasound scanning in a hill sheep flock where the incidence of twinning is low. A high hill hirsel of some 320 Scottish Blackface ewes, typically lambing in the range 0.6-0.9 lambs per ewes mated, was divided across age into two groups. One group was scanned, colour marked and subsequently managed according to foetal number (the SCANNED flock). The other group was also scanned but not colour marked, and therefore managed irrespective of foetal number (the UNSCANNED flock).

Type
Manipulation of Reproduction
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1986 , March 1986 , pp. 55
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1986

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