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Chemical Shearing Effects on Second-Year Fleeces

U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705

Abstract

Twenty western wethers were treated with an average oral dose of 22.7 mg cyclophosphamide per kilogram body weight and the chemically shorn wool was compared with that from 20 western wethers used as controls. The individual fleeces were scoured, carded and combed into tops. Top length was longest for the CT group and shortest for the CC group. Top to noil ratio was higher for the treated wool (13.6/1) than for the control wool (10.1/1). Yields were significantly greater for the treated than for the control wool. There were no significant differences between the two treatments for fineness of scoured wool, top or noils. There was no evidence that the treatment depressed either length or weight of wool.

¹ Animal Science Research Division, A.R.S., Sheep and Fur Animal Research Branch.

² Biometrical Services Staff, A.R.S.

³ The authors thank Dr. H. Leo Dickison, Bristol Laboratories, Syracuse, New York, for providing the cyclophosphamide.