Abstract
Fourty six (20 Awassi and 26 Hamdani) male lambs (4.93 kg birth wt.) were used in this experiment to study the effect of docking on growth and carcase characteristics. Fifty percent of three days old lambs were docked. The docked lambs gave 230 g , slightly higher daily body gain comparing with 220 g for the control lambs. Hamdani lambs gained significantly (p
