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Hair Sheep Of Western Africa And The Americas: A Genetic Resource For The Tropics
ISBN: 9780429049118
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / CRC Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Environment & Agriculture; Agriculture & Environmental Sciences;

Perhaps less than 10 percent of the world's sheep have hair coats instead of wool fleeces, but as an animal resource, these sheep are important far out of proportion to their numbers. Hair coats provide an advantage in the face of the heat, humidity, and other stresses of the tropics. Small in body size, early to mature, and often highly prolific,

H. A. Fitzhugh is an animal scientist and program officer for Latin America and the Caribbean at Winrock International Livestock Research and Training Center.

G. E. Bradford is a professor of animal science at the University of California, Davis.