@conference {41047,
	title = {Performance of Romney and One-Quarter Merino x Three-Quarters Romney sheep on Wanganui hill country},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {58},
	year = {1998},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {266-269},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {The performance of hoggets of part-superfine-Merino ancestry born in 1994 and 1995 were compared with straightbred Romneys (R) in a highly selected nucleus flock on a hill country property, near Wanganui. All animals were born to R ewes. In addition to R, {\textonehalf} Merinos ({\textonehalf} M) were born in 1993 and {\textonequarter} Merino ({\textonequarter}M) in 1994 and 1995. The {\textonequarter}M and R sheep born in 1994 did not differ significantly in hogget greasy fleece weight, live weights, growth rates, or faecal egg and nematode counts. Midside fleece samples collected at two-tooth ewe shearing in late February 1996 showed that the {\textonequarter}M sheep were finer, more yellow, more-bulky and had shorter wool than the R sheep. For {\textonequarter}M and R sheep born in 1995, the {\textonequarter}M genotype had a lower hogget greasy fleece weight, weaning weight and 12 month live weight. The {\textonequarter}M hogget wool was finer, brighter, less yellow, bulkier and shorter than the R midside wool. Clean scoured yield was not significantly different. },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Everett-Hincks JM and Wickham GA and Blair HT}
}
