Estimation of repeatability for greasy fleece weight in Awassi sheep

Abstract AR

The study was conducted on Awassi sheep by using 150 records of greasy fleece weight which collected through 2010 to 2013 from the flock reared in college of agriculture / kufa university.

Two methods were used to estimate repeatability, simple correlation and analysis of variance.

The results showed the estimates of repeatability of the year 2010-2011, 2010 -2012 and 2011-2012 were 0.

42, 0.

53 and 0.

76 respectively .

Also the results revealed that the repeatability of greasy fleece weight which estimated by variance analysis method was 0.

49, this value was higher than value estimated by correlation method which being 0.

44.-