A morphometric study of sheep reared in north-east Algerian

Dekhili, M.

doi:10.4321/s0004-05922014000400006

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“…The coefficients of variation calculated on all the measurements ranged from 2.33 to 7.37%. These values were lower than those reported by Dekhili (2014) and Harkat et al (2015). The highest variation was observed for WW (7.37%), which could be important for selection and improvement.…”

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Phenotypic Characterization of Sheep Population in Aures, Hodna and Ziban Zones, Algeria

MOHAMMEDI¹,

LAIADI²,

TITAOUINE³

2022

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This study aims to characterize the sheep population phenotypically in three zones in northeastern Algeria: Aures, Hodna and Ziban. A total of 160 female animals of 2 to 4 years of age were subject to 4 quantitative linear body measurements (body length BL, withers height WH, tail length TL and wool weight WW) and 9 qualitative physical traits (head length HL, ear orientation EO, horn presence H, neck length NL, wool extent WE, tail texture TT, eyes shape ES, head color HC and wool color WC). The results indicate that the sheep population in these areas belonged to the Ouled Djellel sheep breed with some abnormal phenotypes, which refers to uncontrolled crossbreeding. Body measurements show moderate variation coefficient values, with the highest value reported for WW (7.37%). However, despite the weak correlations found in this study, clear ones were revealed between WH and TL (0.30) and BL and WW (0.26). The Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering analysis sub-divided the sheep population into three classes, in which an overlap, according to body measurements, was remarked between Hodna and Ziban and between Aures and Ziban but not between Aures and Hodna.

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Phenotypic Characterization of Sheep Population in Aures, Hodna and Ziban Zones, Algeria

MOHAMMEDI¹,

LAIADI²,

TITAOUINE³

2022

BUASVMCN-ASB

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“…A breed characterization based on morphometric traits was not accurate for characterizing Arabian goats in the northern ecotype (40.30%) of Algeria [ 5 ], Burkina Faso goats in the Sudan area (6.00%) [ 9 ], and Algerian sheep in the southern (10.00%) and central (14.75%) areas of Algeria [ 11 ]. However, the D 2 value between Kacang goats in the lowland and the highland regions based on body measurements was 0.36 ( Table 6 ).…”

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Morphometric characterization of Kacang goats raised in lowland and highland areas of Jambi Province, Indonesia

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“…Previous studies reported that the body measurements could be used to characterize 70%-100% of Ripollesa sheep at nine different populations (Esquivelzeta et al, 2011); 54.18%-74.59% of Algerian sheep at three different populations (Dekhili, 2014) and 76.27%-92.80% of Djallonke ewes at three different populations (N'Goran et al, 2019). Moreover, the body measurements were used by Asamoah-Boaheng & Sam (2016), reporting that 65.20% of Djallonke sheep, 88.90% of Sahel sheep, and 79.30% of Djallonke × Sahel sheep can be characterized with body measurements.…”

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“…In small-ruminant animals, morphometric characterization can be performed with body measurements and body indices (Esquivelzeta et al, 2011;Ouchene-Khelifi et al, 2018;Putra & Ilham, 2019;Markovic et al, 2019). Moreover, previous studies have classified the small-ruminant animals from different populations based on their morphometrics (Zaitoun et al, 2005;Traore et al, 2008;Nafti et al, 2014;Dekhili et al, 2014;Gatew et al, 2015;Hosseini et al, 2016;Birhanie et al, 2019;Jarquin et al, 2019).…”

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