- Title
- Veldram performance testing of dorper rams in Namibia : performance testing, progency testing and factors influencing sale price of rams
- Creator
- Grobler, Hermanus Johannes Fourie
- Subject
- Dorper sheep -- Breeding -- Namibia
- Subject
- Sheep -- Breeding -- Namibia
- Subject
- Dorper sheep
- Subject
- Sheep breeds
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MTech
- Identifier
- vital:10733
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1545
- Identifier
- Dorper sheep -- Breeding -- Namibia
- Identifier
- Sheep -- Breeding -- Namibia
- Identifier
- Dorper sheep
- Identifier
- Sheep breeds
- Description
- The study aims to determine the contribution made by available ram growth- and breed standard parameters on the sale price of auctioned rams in Namibia. These findings serve as an indication of the importance ram buyers place on individual parameters in selecting rams for breeding purposes. It furthermore tries to establish whether scientific measurement for the estimation of ram breeding values takes precedence over subjective appraisal. The analysis of the 100 day and 270 day growth performance of the progeny of selected Veldram tested rams were used to evaluate the accuracy of the estimation of ram breeding values and may serve to validate the proper execution of these Veldram tests.
- Format
- vi, 109 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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