TY - JOUR ID - 20615 TI - Feedlot Performance and Carcass Compositions of Ghezel and Mehraban Lambs and Their Reciprocal Crosses JO - Iranian Journal of animal Science JA - IJAS LA - en SN - 2008-4773 AU - izadi far, jamshid AU - dadpasand, mohammad AD - Y1 - 2009 PY - 2009 VL - 40 IS - 1 SP - EP - KW - Carcass. KW - Crossbreeding KW - Ghezel KW - Growth KW - Mehraban sheep DO - N2 - The effect of crossbreeding between Ghezel and Mehraban on growth performance and carcass characteristics was studied for two consecutive years using 162 purebred and crossbred lambs. The four groups of lambs involved in the study were purebred Mehraban (MM), purebred Ghezel (GG), crossbred Ghezel ramĂ—Mehraban ewe (GM) and crossbred Mehraban ramĂ—Ghezel ewe (MG). The lambs were fed with grazing of cereal (wheat and barely) pasture, alfalfa as well as with concentrate for 84 days. The results indicated that crossbreeding had significant (p UR - https://ijas.ut.ac.ir/article_20615.html L1 - https://ijas.ut.ac.ir/article_20615_28e0a02aa76928e2b73de8fa48989b32.pdf ER -