| dc.description.abstract | Fat-tailed sheep is one of the important livestock resources for meat production especially in dry area of Indonesia such as Madura and Rote Islands. One of criteria for good performance as meat type is body measurement which can be useful to show their characteristics and general body dimension. This experiment was done to identify the size and shape of body dimension of fat-tailed sheep in Madura and Rote Islands. Data of 9 body measurements have been analysed from 136 fat-tailed sheep, 50 rams and 86 ewes. The data obtained were analyzed with Principle Component Analysis (PCA). The results showed that chest deep is a representaion of body size for fat-tailed Madura and Rote rams with correlation coefficient between body size and chest deep were 0.924 and 0.842, respectively. There is a different representation of body size for both ewes. The tail width is the representation of body size for fat-tailed Madura ewes with correlation coefficient is 0.799; in contrast, the wither height is the representation of body size for fat-tailed Rote ewes with the correlation coefficient is 0876. The representations of body shape for both fat-tailed sheep are the cranium width (for fat-tailed Madura rams and ewes and also for fat-tailed Rote ewes) and chest circumference (foe fat-tailed Rote rams). A positive correlation coefficient between cranium width and body shape representation is found (0.785; 0.785; 0.630), but the fat-tailed Rote rams have negative correlation coefficient which is -0.648. Sheep possessing greater tail length and width have smaller body shape, or vice versa. It is concluded that the body size and shape of the rams and ewes of fat-tailed Madura sheep do not differed from those of fat-tailed Rote sheep. | id |
