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Wool growth regulation by local skin cooling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

J. M. Doney and
J. G. Griffiths
J. M. Doney
Affiliation:
Hill Farming Research Organisation, 29 Lander Road, Edinburgh 9
J. G. Griffiths
Affiliation:
Hill Farming Research Organisation, 29 Lander Road, Edinburgh 9
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Local cooling of the skin, produced by exposure to wind was shown to depress the rate of length growth of wool. The depression was associated with reductions in skin temperature and blood flow and with increases in heat transfer in the exposed regions. Fibre diameter did not appear to be affected and there were no indications of a systemic response of wool growth rate to exposure.

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Animal Production , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , August 1967, pp. 393 - 397
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1967

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