Table 3.

Comparison of mean values of meat quality-related traits, WHC and pH, according to sex, farm, and lambing season in Sudan Creole hair sheep CHS_S

Sources of variance	Factor	N	WHC (%)	pH
Sex	Female	21	38.65 ± 15a	5.73 ± 0.1a
	Male	42	43.21 ± 16.5a	5,75 ± 0.1a
Farm	1U	10	25.06 ± 6.1b*	5.69 ± 0.13b*
	2SJ	12	49.27 ± 27a*	5.71 ± 0.1b*
	2VC	10	43.88 ± 16a*	5.81 ± 0.05a*
	2A	9	44.24 ± 8.7a*	5.71 ± 0.1b*
	2VL	14	40.90 ± 4.9a*	5.71 ± 0.1b*
	2P	8	46.90 ± 8.1a*	5.85 ± 0.09a*
Lambing season	Rainy	17	46.6 ± 25a	5.77 ± 0.1a
	Drought	46	39.8 ± 11a	5.73 ± 0.01a
	Total mean	63	41.69 ± 16.3	5.74 ± 0.1

Mean + s.d. of variables. Superscripts denote Duncan pairwise comparisons between sources of variance; means with the same letter do not differ significantly (**p < 0.001; *p < 0.05); N, number of observations