Productive qualities and biological features of balbas breed sheeps

In the Nakhchivan and in the regions of the southwestern zone of Azerbaijan, sheep of the Balbas breed are bred, well adapted to the specific conditions of distant-mountain keeping and the local climate. The sheep of this breed are characterized by a combined meat-wool-milk productivity. To improve the wool qualities of Balbas sheep, in recent years, intra-breed rams of the local semi-coarse-wool breed have been used. Therefore, the need arose for a comparative study of the productive qualities of Balbas sheep and their crosses.