@conference {39881,
	title = {Fleece tenderness: the effect of nutrition, age and lambing status on pregnant Romney and Coopworth mixed-age ewes},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {44},
	year = {1984},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {53-56},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {The potentially high levels of productivity of fitch - 2 litters per year, 8 young per litter - is rarely achieved in practice. Annual litter rates vary from 0.9 to 1.7 per female kept, due to high rates of false pregnancy (up to 90\%). Kit mortality can reach high levels (to 50\%). Young fitch grow rapidly and reach mature body size at 20 weeks (males 1400 g; females 800g). Subsequent fluctuations in body weight are attributable to adipose depositions.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Fitzgerald JM and Smeaton DC and Jagusch KT}
}
