UDC 636.939
DOI: 10.36871/vet.zoo.bio.202208008
Authors
Tatyana V. Reusova,
Mikhail V. Novikov,
Oksana A. Strepetova,
Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology – MVA by K. I. Skryabin”, Moscow, Russia
Abstract
Breeding of new types of caged animals is an urgent task of modern fur farming. The skins of fur animals are valued for the diversity of hair color, which is the result of genetic variability due to multiple mutations in the basic color typical of the original wild animal species. Hair color is one of the main breeding traits of great practical importance. Significant economically useful features include the length and thickness of different categories of hair, the evenness of the hairline, depending on the topographical area of the skin of a fur-bearing animal. The skins of the bluefrost fox hybrid, as well as the skins of the silver-black fox and the veil fox, as the hybrid was obtained by crossing them, served as the material for the research. The article presents the results of a study of indicators suitable for identifying the hairline of the skins of the fox hybrid bluefrost, veil fox and silver-black fox. An analysis of the parameters of the hairline is presented: the true length of each category of hair, the thickness of the hair shaft, the pattern and the ratio of the pigment distribution in the shaft of different categories of hair. The studies were carried out in three topographic areas: scruff, rump, and rump.
Keywords
skins, fox-and-polar fox hybrid, crossing, properties, bluefrost
