@conference {40326,
	title = {Integrating sheep and goats},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {51},
	year = {1991},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {287-290},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {There is a specialised market for lustrous wools. No objective  measure of lustre is currently available. Elliott (1986) has suggested,  on the basis of the correlation between loose wool bulk (LWB) and lustre  (LS) in wools from a wide variety of sources, that measurement of (LWB)  and average fibre diameter (AFD) might be a useful indirect selection  criterion for lustre. The strength of the above relationships  within flocks have, however, not been established.   Mid-side samples were taken from complete flocks of ram hoggets (n=390).  Clean scoured yield, average fibre diameter and loose wool bulk were  determined on all samples. Each greasy sample was independently  assessed for lustre on a 7 point scale by three experienced wool  appraisers. Within flock correlations between LS and LWB ranged from  0.36 to 0.58 for the best assessor (mean 0.48), much lower than the  values (>0.90) obtained in Elliott{\textquoteright}s study. Inclusion of fibre diameter  failed to markedly improve the prediction of lustre score. The co-  efficient of variation was lower for LWB (4.7\%) and AFD (5.7\%) than for  LS (27.8\%). The significance of these results for wool measurement and  selection programmes will be discussed.  },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {McCall L and Shaw D}
}
