New Mexico Sheep-Breeding System: with data on the historic Floyd Lee Ranch, Memoir Series Number 5

Series

Memoir Series

Collection name

NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, 1889-Present

Date

1971-10

Decade

1970s

Author

Neale, P. E.

Contributor

Leyendecker, Philip J.

Lee, Floyd W.

Subject (LCSH)

Sheep--Breeding--New Mexico

Subject (NALT)

sheep

animal breeding

New Mexico

Table of contents

Foreword

Preface

The New Mexico sheep-breeding system

Part I. On the Floyd Lee Ranch

Part II. Research in sheep selections

Importance of culling range sheep

Effect of types and breeds of sheep

Corrective sheep breeding

Seclection of rams for upgrading wool production

Body weights of range sheep

Longer-stapled wool increases income

Breeding costs with purchased and home-grown rams

Body weight, clean wool, wool length, and shrinkage

Estimating wool length

Effect of ram weight

Environment affects performance of sale rams

Development of extremes in herds

Influence of crimp

Uniformity of fleece reduces manufacturing costs

A machine for estimating clean-fleece weight

Selecting range sheep

Wool length and selection with the squeeze machine

Sorting breeding sheep annually or only once

Visually desirable traits

Injection of extreme variations into pure lines

In conclusion

Publications about selective mating program

Extent

40 pages

Notes

Memoir series publication containing a history of the selective breeding sheep improvement program in New Mexico from the 1930s. Includes information on the sheep improvement activities taking place on the Fernandez Company's Floyd Lee Ranch.

Original publisher

New Mexico State University

College of Agriculture and Home Economics

Place of publication

Las Cruces (N.M.)

Frequency

frequency varies

Digital publisher

New Mexico State University Library

Source

NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES)

Language

English

Type

Text

Format

application/pdf

Medium (AAT)

newsletters

Genre (AAT)

periodicals

Access rights

Open to re-use

Metadata cataloger

Page, Kristen

Schneider, Ingrid

Roth, Michael

Digital identifier

UAAPM000MS5.pdf