Table 3.
Body condition scoring of the ewes under various physiological stages with reference to different rearing systems.
| Period (months) | Rearing System |
SEM | P Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT | SI | INT | |||
| At puberty | 2.0 (16.15) | 2.0 (23.46) | 2.5 (24.25) | 0.07 | 0.086 |
| At mating | 2.0 (14.42) | 2.5 (25.19) | 2.5 (24.25) | 0.07 | 0.011 |
| 2 wk pre-lambing | 2.5 (17.65) | 3.0 (22.03) | 3.0 (24.69) | 0.07 | 0.236 |
| At lambing | 3.0 (19.65) | 3.0 (21.27) | 3.0 (23.19) | 0.05 | 0.441 |
| 2 wk post-lambing | 2.5 (20.08) | 2.5 (21.50) | 2.5 (22.66) | 0.07 | 0.751 |
| 4 wk post-lambing | 2.5 (17.31) | 2.5 (20.08) | 2.5 (26.06) | 0.10 | 0.091 |
| 8 wk Post-lambing | 2.5 (20.69) | 2.5 (21.15) | 2.5 (26.44) | 0.09 | 0.906 |
| 12 wk Post-lambing | 2.0 (14.50) | 2.0 (16.34) | 2.5 (31.38) | 0.08 | <0.001 |
The values presented were medians with mean Kruskal-Wallis ranks in parenthesis.
Ext - Extensive, SI - Semi intensive, I - Intensive, SEM - Standard error of mean, P Val - P values.