Sentence examples for an aged ram from inspiring English sources

Using incorrect replacement rates for rams could lead to an aged ram population or to an excessive proportion of ram lambs and yearlings, which have lower potential fertility than adults [ 2, 33].

The prevalence of alterations in each body area, the prevalence of previous diseases, and the classification of rams according to age (yearlings, adults and aged rams) is summarised in Table  1.

This has also been reported in other studies [ 5, 18], in which both groups, adult and aged rams, presented a higher proportion of affected individuals.

The group of aged rams also displayed a greater proportion of individuals with severe alterations in head and limbs (p < 0.05).

In spite of the low general prevalence of limb alterations, higher percentages were observed in aged rams than in the other three age groups.

In fact, only 19.8%% of the aged rams evaluated were free of alterations.

The percentage of unsuitable rams was significantly greater in aged rams than in yearlings and adults (37.4 vs. 7.9 and 13.8 %, respectively; p < 0.05).

The highest prevalence of unsuitable breeders was found in the category of adult and aged rams (13.8 % and 37.4 %, respectively) and in the category of emaciated rams (33.3 %).

As noted by Van Metre et al. [ 18], the groups of mature rams (adult and aged rams) also presented higher percentages of testicular alterations.

The group of aged rams presented the highest prevalence of rams with testicular alterations, although significance was not attained (p > 0.05).

Use an aged, weathered appearance.