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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Animal. 2019 Nov 6;14(4):799–806. doi: 10.1017/S1751731119002696

Table 3.

Effect of mid-pregnancy shearing or sham shearing (control) in Polypay × Dorset pregnant sheep on progeny weight and BMI at birth (mean ± SEM).

Treatment Control Shearing SEM1 P value
Birth Weight (kg) 5.0 5.4 0.34 0.03
BMI 0.40 0.44 0.04 0.04
Sex Female Male
Birth Weight (kg) 4.9 5.5 0.34 0.005
BMI 0.39 0.44 0.04 0.01
Birth Weight Treatment * Sex 0.6
BMI Treatment * Sex 0.4
1

Standard error of the mean from the mixed model output.

BMI: Body Mass Index.

For treatment, data are combined for males and females. For sex, data are combined for control and shearing treatment.