
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brash, LD 
A1  - Fogarty, NM 
A1  - Gilmour, AR 
T1  - Genetic parameters for Australian maternal and dual-purpose meatsheep breeds. III. Liveweight, fat depth and wool production in Coopworth sheep
JF  - Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
JO  - Aust. J.  Agric. Res.
Y1  - 1994
VL  - 45
IS  - 2
SP  - 481
EP  - 486
KW  - heritability;genetic correlations;Coopworth;liveweight;fleece weight;fibre diameter;fat depth
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AR9940481 
N2  - Heritability was estimated for weaning liveweight of 7030 Coopworth sheep from 10 flocks representing 92 sires by derivative-free restricted maximum likelihood procedures using an animal model. Similar analyses were used for yearling liveweight and greasy fleece weight with over 4000 animals, fat depth on 2184 animals and fibre diameter on 966 animals. The fixed effects of flock-year-management group, sex, birth type, rearing type and age were significant for most traits. Estimates of heritability were 0.45 ¦ 0 - 07 for weaning liveweight, 0.38 ¦ 0.07 for yearling liveweight, 0 28 ¦ 0.05 for greasy fleece weight, 0.18 ¦ 0 08 for fibre diameter and 0.13 ¦ 0.04 for ultrasonic fat depth at the C site. The genetic correlations of liveweights with greasy fleece weight were positive, but close to zero with fibre diameter. The genetic correlation between greasy fleece weight and fibre diameter was 0.422 ¦ 0.25. Fat depth was highly genetically correlated with liveweights at weaning (0.53 ¦ 0.22) and yearling (0.64 ¦ 0- 20) ages, was highly negatively correlated with fibre diameter (-0.55 ¦ 0.28) and had a small positive genetic correlation with greasy fleece weight (0.15 ¦ 0.34). 
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