Table 2.

Growth performance and daily feed intake of ewes in the CON and UN groups (n = 10)¹

Item3	Groups2		P-value
	CON	UN
Initial body weight, kg	55.07 ± 0.84	53.74 ± 0.69	0.240
Final body weight, kg	56.83 ± 0.68a	44.65 ± 0.80b	< 0.001
Daily weight gain, g/d	117.33 ± 28.03a	−606.00 ± 50.78b	< 0.001
Daily feed intake, kg/d	1.64 ± 0.01a	0.52 ± 0.01b	< 0.001

¹The data were expressed as the mean ± SEM

²CON, control group; UN, undernutrition group

³Initial body weight, body weight measured on d 0; Final body weight, body weight measured on d 15

^a,b Means with different letters are significantly different (P < 0.05), whereas those sharing a common letter or with no letter do not differ significantly