@conference {40753,
	title = {Sires for more valuable lambs},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {55},
	year = {1995},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {324-326},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Specialist terminal sire breeds offer several advantages to the  commercial farmer, particularly their ability for rapid change in  relevant traits in response to market signals. The production, survival  and disease resistance benefits resulting from the hybrid vigour in the  crossbred progeny have also widely documented. Terminal sires breeds  also provide for efficient utilisation of between breed differences in  carcass quality and mature weight. However, terminal sires are  presently under utilised by the NZ sheep industry.    In future this situation is expected to change. Long term trends  suggest that carcasses will be paid for on the basis of weight of lean  meat. In addition, terminal sire breeders are increasingly using  performance recording systems allied with methods of estimating carcass  composition, both of which have markedly improved in recent years.  Terminal sire breeds are the logical method to distribute major genes  affecting growth and carcass quality. The identification,  characterisation and "packaging" of these genes will become increasingly  routine.   },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {McEwan JC and Davis GH and Fennessy PF and Clarke JN}
}
