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The influence of four levels of feeding on the position and eruption of incisor teeth in sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

G. Wiener  and
A. F. Purser
G. Wiener
Affiliation:
A.R.C. Animal Breeding Research Organisation, Edinburgh, 9
A. F. Purser
Affiliation:
A.R.C. Animal Breeding Research Organisation, Edinburgh, 9
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The distance between the front of the incisor teeth and the front of the maxillary pad (incisor bite measure) was measured in 140 sheep about 1 year old. The sheep consisted of seven breed types—the offspring of Blackface ewes by Wiltshire, Border Leicester, Lincoln and Blackface rams, and of Welsh ewes by Welsh, Wiltshire and Suffolk rams. Within each breed type the effects of four different feeding treatments lasting 7 months were studied. These produced small but very significant differences in bite measure. Differences between breed types were significant only in respect of the division between the two breeds of dam. Effect of breed of dam, however, was confounded with any effect due to differences in origin.

The proportion of permanent central incisors which had replaced milk teeth when the animals averaged a little more than a year old was affected both by the level of treatment during the experiment and by breed.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , May 1957 , pp. 51 - 55
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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