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The breeding season of the sheep with particular reference to its modification by artificial means using light

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

N. T. M. Yeates
N. T. M. Yeates
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School of Agriculture, University of Cambridge, and University of Queensland
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At the beginning of the present century Heape (1900), describing the sexual season of mammals, pointed out that sheep in the British Isles are sexually active during only a portion of the year.

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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 1949 , pp. 1 - 43
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1949

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