Journal of Dairying, Foods and Home Sciences

The studies on physical properties of wool of six breeds of sheep of Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir. Sixty wool samples, 10 from such of the six breeds were selected to study the physical properties of wool. The study revealed that Dorset (exotic) had maximum staple length followed by Rambuillet (exotic) had maximum staple length followed by Rambuillet (exotic), i.e. 6.03 cm and 5.74 cm respectively. The minimum staple length was in case of Kashmir Merino (cross bred), i.e. 4.94 cm. The other parameters, viz., fibre diameter, crimp, medullation percentage were also studied and the study revealed that Rambouillet (exotic) had the minimum fibre diameter, i.e. 17.63μ whereas the maximum fibre diameter was in case of Kajli (local) i.e. 43.77μ. These studies showed a lot of improvement in all the physical properties of local breeds after cross breeding.