Table 4.

Proximate composition of total muscle mass from one side of each lamb carcass from ewes fed tall fescue seed with endophyte (E+) vs. endophyte-free (E−) during gestation (d 35 to parturition).

	E+	E−	SEM	P-Level
Moisture, %	79.05	78.64	0.09	0.01
Crude protein, %	17.09	18.74	0.69	0.05
Total Lipid, %	2.44	2.50	0.20	0.83
Ash, %	2.12	2.17	0.77	0.78
FATTY ACIDS, %
C14:0	0.90	1.01	0.07	0.28
C16:0	19.67	20.81	0.84	0.35
C16:1 cis-9	2.14	2.03	0.14	0.59
C17:0	0.36	0.39	0.03	0.33
C18:0	13.13	14.44	0.52	0.10
C18:1 cis-9	49.95	49.54	0.72	0.69
C18:1 cis-11	3.03	2.99	0.12	0.83
C18:2 cis-9,12	0.65	0.51	0.09	0.26
C18:3 cis-9,12,15	0.28	0.26	0.05	0.77
C20:4 cis-5,8,11,14	1.89	0.61	0.32	0.01
C20:5 cis-5,8,11,14,17	0.40	0.18	0.07	0.04
C22:5 cis-7,10,13,16,19	0.31	0.50	0.16	0.42
C22:6 cis-4,7,10,13,16,19	0.26	0.20	0.05	0.44
Saturated	33.70	36.26	1.17	0.14
Monounsaturated	52.09	51.57	0.77	0.64
Polyunsaturated, n-6	2.54	1.12	0.37	0.02
Polyunsaturated, n-3	1.25	1.16	0.22	0.76
Ratio of n-6:n-3	1.96	1.07	0.20	0.01
Total fatty acids, g/100g LT	1.76	1.81	0.19	0.85