@conference {40229,
	title = {Postweaning growth and carcass leanness of lambs that differed in preweaning growth rate},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {50},
	year = {1990},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {287-292},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of   nutritional status on fibre quality from Angora goats during spring.   Two groups of 28 non-pregnant Angora does were grazed on ryegrass/white   clover pasture at one of two pasture allowances; 1.0 kg and >4kg DM   /head/day (low and high respectively) for twelve weeks during spring.   Groups were balanced for live weight, age, fibre diameter, medullation   and kemp measurements and genetic background. Live weight and fibre   quality (fibre diameter, \% medullaltion and \% kemp) were measured at the   start, after 6 weeks and at the end of the experiment. Mean live weight   of does at the start of the experiment was 22.6 + 0.20 kg and after 12   weeks 30.9 and 25.2; sed 0.63kg for high and low allowance respectively.   Neither mean fibre diameter (35.2 vs 34.1; sed 0.66 microns) nor   medullation (5.38 vs 6.51;s ed 53\%), was affected by pasture allowance   over the experiment (high and low allowance respectively). However,   after 12 weeks, there was a trend for \% kemp measured in the fleece in   does on high pasture allowance to be higher than in does on low   allowance (8.16 vs 6.52; sed 1.04\%). All does were fibre tested again in   March 1989 after grazing at a common allowance, but differences in   fibre characteristics between the previous spring pasture allowances   treatments were small. It appears that doe nutrition during spring can   influence the kemp content in the Angora fleece. The mechanism of this   effect is, however, not known.    },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Bray AR and Moss RA and Burton RN and Saville DJ}
}
