Abstract
This study was conducted on Awassi and Hamdani sheep belongs to flock of Agriculture and Forestry College, Mosul University during the productive season 2009. The study included 57 Awassi ewes and 17 Hamdani ewes, and 67 , 22 lambs of two breeds, respectively . The overall means of daily milk yield (DMY), fat, protein, lactose and solids not-fat percentages were 563.43 gm , 6.93 , 5.47, 4.46 , and 10.78%, respectively . The mean body weight at birth (BW) , weaning (WW) and six months (6W) of age were 3.53 , 25.47 and 28.00 kg, respectively . Total gain of weight from birth to weaning (GBW) and from weaning to six months (GW6) were 21.94 and 2.05 kg, respectively . The effect of breed was significant only on DMY and fat percentage . The breed affect (BW), (6W) and (GW6) were significant . The sex and type of birth have significant influence (p
