@conference {39881,
	title = {Fleece tenderness: the effect of nutrition, age and lambing status on pregnant Romney and Coopworth mixed-age ewes},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {44},
	year = {1984},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {53-56},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {The potentially high levels of productivity of fitch - 2 litters per year, 8 young per litter - is rarely achieved in practice. Annual litter rates vary from 0.9 to 1.7 per female kept, due to high rates of false pregnancy (up to 90\%). Kit mortality can reach high levels (to 50\%). Young fitch grow rapidly and reach mature body size at 20 weeks (males 1400 g; females 800g). Subsequent fluctuations in body weight are attributable to adipose depositions.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Fitzgerald JM and Smeaton DC and Jagusch KT}
}
@conference {39826,
	title = {Fleece tenderness - a review},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {43},
	year = {1983},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {73-78},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {The heritability of loose wool bulk and yellowness (CIE Tristimulus value Y-Z) and the genetic and phenotypic correlation of these with other wool traits were determined from data obtained on ewe hoggets born in 1979 and 1980 in the strains trial at Rotomahana. Heritability estimates were 0.41 },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Bigham ML and Sumner RMW and Hawker H and Fitzgerald JM}
}
