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Abstract
Age determination in animals constitutes a medicolegal importance whereas; it helps in identification of both living and dead animals, evaluation of meat quality, assessment of skeletal maturity and detection of animal adulteration. This study was carried out on a group of forty five Rhamani sheep of different ages. The animals were collected from different villages in Sharkia Province. Age estimation was done by two methods in this study. The first method is to determine the epiphyseal plates closure times radiographically in thirty sheep of ages ranged from one day old to forty four months old. The second one is by measurement of telomere length by telomeric restriction fragment (TRF) analysis in peripheral blood samples collected from the other fifteen sheep