Table 1.

Information (± s.e.) on age, live weight and faecal egg counts for the experimental animals at housing

Item	Suffolk	Texel	P value
No. of lambs	29 (20)†	32 (16)†	-
Date of birth	28 March	29 March	-
Age at housing (days)	40.2 ± 0.59	39.2 ± 0.56	>0.2
Live weight at housing (kg)	17.7 ± 0.71	17.7 ± 0.68	>0.9
FECOT (log scale)	4.3 ± 0.25 (41)‡	3.6 ± 0.10 (12)‡	<0.01
FECNEM (log scale)	5.8 ± 0.23 (298)‡	5.1 ± 0.27 (132)‡	<0.05
Live weight 1 week prior to challenge (kg)	46.2 ± 1.51	43.5 ± 1.51	>0.1

^†No. of lambs that yielded a faecal sample at housing.

^‡Back-transformed from mean value on log_e scale.