Sentence examples for ewe fertility from inspiring English sources

There was no impact of renovation upon ewe fertility.

Through the 1950s Avondale had monitored its sheep flocks as part of the research into Dwalganup strain of clover as a livestock feed and its effect on ewe fertility.

Data obtained from the Menz sheep nucleus flock from 1998 to 2008 was used to estimate genetic trends in yearling weight, ewe fertility, pre-weaning lamb survival and level of inbreeding.

Correlations of individual coefficients of inbreeding with EBV for ewe fertility (r = −0.023) and lamb survival (r = 0.074), taken as indicators of the effect of inbreeding on fitness, were small and statistically not significant (p > 0.05).

Ewe fertility and pre-weaning lamb survival are binary traits and are defined respectively, as number of ewes lambing combined as a proxy measure to pregnancy, and as survival of a lamb from birth to weaning at three months.

To recover natural fertility of ewes that were subjected to ovarian failure induced by radiotherapy with an autologous orthotopic graft of cryopreserved germinative tissue.

An ROC analysis was performed to evaluate the predicting ability of plasma AMH concentration to detect the ewes with a high fertility at first mating.

In the actual selection, the genetic trends for yearling weight, fertility of ewes and survival of lambs were 0.81 kg, –0.00026% and 0.016% per generation.

Concerning the ability of AMH to be used as a screening test to select the most precocious ewes in terms of fertility at first mating, in the present study the AUC value for AMH (0.698) was very close to 0.7, the limit value to classify tests as "moderately accurate" according to an arbitrary guideline.

Based on results of the model, L + ewes were significantly more fertile than ++ ewes (P = 0.016) and fertility decreased as the number of lambs suckled in the previous litter increased (P < 0.0001).

A study was designed to evaluate whether the time of onset of puberty and fertility of young ewe lambs would be affected by oocyte pick-up conducted in single or repeated sessions during the first months of lambs' live.