Sentence examples for effect on lamb weight from inspiring English sources
The results show that A. phagocytophilum infection has an effect on lamb weight gain.
Lamb sex, parity and lambing weight had pronounced (P < 0.05) effects on lamb birth weight and weaning weight.
A study was carried out in 2007 and 2008 to examine the prevalence of A. phagocytophilum infection and effect on weaning weight in lambs.
The modern veterinary health services give greater attention to the Se status knowing that subclinical Se deficiency may have a detrimental effect on daily weight gain in lambs, reproduction in ewes and rams as well as full function of the immune system [ 8, 9].
Although moving to clean pasture had only a temporary effect on weight gains in treated lambs, untreated and moved lambs (UM) had 15% higher mean weight gain than untreated and set-stocked lambs (US) (comparison from week 8 to 22; repeated measures ANOVA; p < 0.05).
Therefore, one can conclude that supplemental fat to ewes at 3% during their postpartum period might recover their cyclicity late in the breeding season, but not at high levels (5%), and can improve their milk production and affect live weight change during that period with no effect on weaning weight or litter weight of lambs.
Similarly, Hadjipavlou et al. [ 11] had studied the effect of the c.2360G>A mutation on Charollais lambs, and did not find any effect on live weight.
However, this study documented flock differences in effects of birth-rearing type on lamb weaning weights, with an inverse relationship between flock means for weaning weight and multiplicative effects of birth-rearing type.
After controlling for the various variables known to explain variation in birth weight (Lindström et al. 2002), the interaction of lamb sex × co-twin sex had a significant effect on birth weight (table 1).
Female weight at LP showed a seasonal difference while season had no effect on male weight.
