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With the aim to make a characteristics of sheep from Karnobat local breed in the breeding flock of Institute of Agriculture-Karnobat a study was carried out with 1072 ewes born in period from 2000 to 2004. Traits live weight at weaning, at 18 months, at 2.5 years, fertility, milk yield, wool productivity, length of wool and fineness were recorded.
It was found that ewes feature with good for a local breed live weight. It vary from 20 kg to 26.2 kg at weaning, and at 18 months of age it reached 4l.1kg to 44.9 kg. The fertility was in the bounds from 103.6 to 109.3 %; and milk yield – from 41.2 to 52.6l. The ewes from Karnobat local breed was keeped as valued gene bank with original quality.