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Volume 15 (2): 142-146, 2011.  Redacted 2017.

Wool characteristics of Aranesa sheep

 

Parès, Pere-Miquel, DVM1, Jordana, Jordi DVM2, Pèrezgrovas, Raúl, DVM3

 

1Dept. of Animal Anatomy. Animal Science & Health. ETSEA. Univ. of Lleida. Catalunya.  2DVM. Unitat de Ciència Animal, Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 3DVM. Laboratorio de Calidad de Lana del Instituto de Estudios Indígenas de la Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, a San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México

 

ABSTRACT

 

Parès PM, Jordana J, Pèrezgrovas R, Wool characteristics of Aranesa sheep, Onl J Vet Res, 15 (2): 142-146, 2011. Ethnological studies on the wool characteristics of Aranesa sheep have apparently not been published. Fleece samples were taken from 53 sheep for testing. Each sample was analysed for fleece type and length, yield by iso-alcohol scouring, fiber length for each kind of fiber, variation in fiber diameter, and proportion of non-medullated and medullated or kemp fibers. Fiber length appeared shorter than that previously reported for the breed by other authors. Fleeces of the Aranesa sheep breed can be described as square, simple, "semi-open" and short with a relatively high yield by iso-alcohol scouring and low medullation levels, thus indicating good potential quality and greater suitability for potential processing than other similar meat breeds.

 

Keywords: fiber diameter, fleece, kemp, medullation, sheep, yield

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