FIBIŞ –TIMIS COUNTY

Sheep are a multi-purpose animal, raised for meat, milk, and wool. They are also valued for their skins and hides. Increasingly, sheep are being used to control unwanted vegetation. Sheep can use practically all types of forage, including crop residue and even ditch banks. An abundance of forage is one key to profitable sheep production. In Romania Tsurcana breed is ancient and it is still breed by the farmers being rustic and eat almost any fodder. In the Tsurcana rams from S.C. Fibis S.A Timis County, the body weight in 2006 was on average of 59.8181-± 07264 kg. The same 66 studied rams had a wool production of 3.80±0.056 kg / ram, while the staple length range between 27 and 32 cm, with a mean of 29.4769±0.204 cm. The lower value of the variability coefficient of only 5.60 % was registered for the staple length of the rams, which means that the genetic structure of this population is homogeneous