. 2023 Oct 11;10(10):617. doi: 10.3390/vetsci10100617

Table 5.

Blood erythrogram of lambs fed a high-concentrate diet with or without added additives and days on feed.

Item	Treatments (T) ¹				SEM	Days (D)			SEM	p-Value ²
Item	CON	ACL	CCL	BZA	SEM	1	28	56	SEM	T	D	T × D
Red blood cells, ×10⁶/µL	13.90	12.80	13.23	13.86	0.247	13.68	13.04	13.62	0.231	0.079	0.262	0.962
Hemoglobin, g/dL	13.10 ^a	12.05 ^b	12.68 ^b	13.24 ^a	0.163	13.11	12.5	12.7	0.142	0.043	0.278	0.957
Hematocrit, %	38.16	35.68	36.76	38.70	0.542	38.05	36.16	37.78	0.493	0.084	0.186	0.979
Mean corpuscular volume, fL	27.55	28.16	27.84	27.93	0.173	27.97	27.86	27.77	0.150	0.661	0.894	0.994
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin, pg	9.45	9.46	9.60	9.56	0.079	9.62 ^a	9.60 ^a	9.33 ^b	0.076	0.536	0.013	0.983
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, %	34.32	33.66	34.54	34.25	0.184	34.46 ^a	34.5 ^a	33.62 ^b	0.170	0.174	0.024	0.989

¹ CON: control without additive; ACL: ammonium chloride; CCL; calcium chloride; BZA: benzoic acid. ² T: treatments; D: days on feed; T × D: treatments and days on feed interaction. Means without a common letter differ by the Student’s t-test (p < 0.05).