Table 2.
Growth performance.
| HA | MA | SEMa | P-values | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment | Sampling | Treatment × | ||||
| time | Sampling time | |||||
| BW/kg | ||||||
| d1 | 50.1 | 47.6 | 1.95 | 0.420 | <0.001 | 0.282 |
| d51 | 48.7 | 47.8 | 2.18 | |||
| d115 | 47.6 | 44.2 | 1.97 | |||
| Body condition scoresb | ||||||
| d1 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 0.12 | 0.913 | <0.001 | 0.405 |
| d51 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 0.14 | |||
| d115 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 0.32 | |||
Body weight (BW) and body condition scores from ewes grazing tall fescue pastures with high (HA) and moderate (MA) N. coenophialum infection from February through May. Lambing began on d51 and d115 corresponded to the end of the study when lambs averaged 60 days of age.
a
SEM = Pooled standard error of the means.
b
Body condition scores were on a scale from 1 to 5 where 1 is emaciated and 5 is obese.