@conference {40736,
	title = {MOET in ultrafine Merinos: An experimental evaluation},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {55},
	year = {1995},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {281-284},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Results of experimental MOET programme in elite ewes selected from  within an ultrafine Merino flock are presented. Of the treated ewes, 60\%  provided transferable donors with a mean of 16.7 ovulations and 10.4  embryos recovered, 7.8 embryos transferred, 3.9 lambs born and 3.1 lambs  weaned per donor ewe. The wool produced by hoggets from this elite  embryo transfer group was 0.9 um (P0.01) finer than that from their  contemporaries in the ultrafine selection flock and 2.5 um (P0.01) finer than  a random Merino control group. The improvement in fibre diameter was  better than expected from the selection differentials, but not significantly so.   The h2 estimates for liveweight, clean fleece weight, fibre diameter and yield  in three flocks of fine woolled Merinos were 0.50, 0.32, 0.39 and 0.58  respectively. The MOET programme was successfully applied to increase  the number of progeny from elite ultrafine Merino ewes.  },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Wuliji T and Aspinall J and Land JTJ and Shackell GH and Dodds KG and Andrews RN and Rogers J}
}
