Table 3.

Number of sheep that spent less than 15 min at the feeder over the first 6 d in a commercial feedlot as (a) the percentage of sheep alive at exit and (b) the count of sheep that died of different causes

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6
a. Sheep alive at exit (% of n = 8130)
	18.9%	17.3%	2.3%	7.9%	3.9%	2.4%
b. Sheep that died while at the feedlot (of n = 76)
Trauma (n = 5)	1		1	1		1
Tetany (n = 9)	7	8	1	4	2	1
Salmonella (n = 40)	17	23	18	24	24	28
Pneumonia (n = 7)	2	3	2	3	2	2
Other (n = 15)	6	12	2	5	4	6