CARACTERIZACIÓN FANERÓPTICA Y MORFOLÓGICA DE LA HEMBRA OVINA DE PELO CRIOLLO (CAMURA) COLOMBIANA, EN LA SUB REGIÓN SABANAS Y GOLFO DE MORROSQUILLO DEPARTAMENTO DE SUCRE PHANEROPTIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE COLOMBIAN SHEEP FEMALE OF CREOLE HAIR (CAMURA), IN THE SUB REGION SAVANNAS AND MORROSQUILLO GULF, SUCRE DEPARTMENT

In order to study the body conformation of Creoles hair sheep (Camura), 311 females older than 2 years of age and not gravid was taken of a random sample of belonging to eigth farms located in Savannas and Gulf of Morrosquillo sub-region in Sucre department, during the months of January to March 2011; animals with morphological and physiological defects were not considered. Faneroptica and morphological characteristics were the basis of the study, evaluating qualitative variables such as coat color, mucous pigmentation, hooves and udder, croup like slope, head profile, ears position and size, depth udder and neck size, which were recorded on field cards. The controls for each of the qualitative variables were performed using direct observation and photographic images for the description of coat color. Descriptive statistic, based on distribution frequency tables, was used to evaluate the qualitative variables. In sheep of this breed predominated brown color, with black shades, mucous dark nasal, carmelites hooves, shallow udder and un pigmented, sloping rump, long neck, head profile straight, horizontal ears and sizes ranging from small and medium. Corporal weight was 30.2  5.5 kg. It is concluded that the female-CAMURA Colombian Creole sheep show consistent body morphology for meat production, along with those who allow proper locomotion under extensive systems, maintaining a good adaptation to the environmental conditions to which exposed.