@conference {40025,
	title = {Implications of objective measurement of wool for sheep breeding},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {46},
	year = {1986},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {202-205},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Fleeces from 28 000 Romney ewe hoggets in 14 mobs on 7 farms were weighed. Within each mob the top 1\% hogget fleece weight (High) and a random 1\% (Random) were identified, midside sampled and weighed off-shears. Subsequently the top 0.6\% on hogget fleece weight from each mob and a random 0.3\% were transferred to Woodlands Research Station and managed as one flock for the next year. At hogget shearing (9 months fleece) the 14 High sub-groups had an average 1.08 kg higher fleece weights (greasy) and 0.83 kg higher clean fleece weights than the Random sub-groups. There was a close between sub-group relationship between greasy fleece weight and live weight with the High hoggets having 0.78 kg heavier fleeces at the same live weight. The High hogget sub-groups had a higher mean live weight (+3.9kg), fibre diameter (+2.7 },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Binnie DB and Elliott KH}
}
