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

Table 6.

Blood leukogram 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
CON ACL CCL BZA 1 28 56 T D T × D
Total leukocytes/µL 6925 7196 7350 7600 219.6 7431 ab 6516 b 7856 a 190.2 0.743 0.044 0.911
Segmented neutrophils/µL 2608 2766 2964 3034 108.5 3270 a 2612 b 2646 b 93.9 0.500 0.024 0.533
Lymphocytes/µL 3909 4016 3912 4233 181.2 3741 a 3563 a 4748 b 162.3 0.881 0.007 0.911
Monocytes/µL 289 267 286 199 18.58 304 219 257 16.09 0.291 0.180 0.556
Eosinophils/µL 80 85 98 80 11.68 73 61 123 10.11 0.938 0.076 0.712
Basophils/µL 39 62 86 55 5.935 43 61 79 5.140 0.054 0.054 0.123

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).