Evaluation on quality of winter pelts of blue frost foxes

Abstract

Several statistic indexes including pelt weight, pelt area, skin thickness length of hair, fineness of hair and hair density, were adopted in the evaluation of winter pelt quality of blue frost fox and their parents. Results showed that some indexes of qualitative characters of blue frost fox were the medium between blue fox and silver fox, and some were superior to them.

Keywords

Blue frost fox / Winter pelt / Quality

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