CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRODUCTIVЕ SIGNATURES OF SHEEP FROM THE KARNOBAT FINE-WOOL BREED

M. Iliev, S. Boikovski, T. Tsonev

Abstract: In order to characterize the productive characteristics of sheep from the Karnobat fine-wool breed in the herd of the Institute of Agriculture – Karnobat, a sheep survey was carried out, born in 2016 - 2017. Productive traits are controlled under the Instruction for the Control of Productive traits (2003, 2008) by the Association for the Breeding of fine-wool Sheep in Bulgaria. The data are processed according to the variation of the statistical method for the traits: biological fertility, aborted, fertility rate, economic fertility, weight development of male and female animals by periods (weaning, 9 months, 18 months), wool productivity, wool yield and clean wool of 1.5 years). It was found that the sheep from the Karnobat fine-wool breed had an average biological fertility of 135.40%, an economic fertility of 126.74%, and a fertility rate of 93.66%. The highest is the wool yield of the gimmers from line 2081 – 63.26%. Male animals at 1.5 years from australian line 2081 have the highest wool yield – 64.86%. The wool fineness of the shoulder is at the end of the 60th grade quality, and on the leg - at the beginning of the 58th.

Keywords: breed; productive traits; sheep

Date published: 2019-03-21