Table 7. Whole blood counts of crossbred lambs consuming either a forage or grain based diet while in confinement or on wheat stubble fields in yr 1¹⁾.

Item6)	Treatment2,3)				SEM	p-value
	Confinement4)		Field5)			Model	Location7)	Feed8)	Location × Feed
	CALF	CBAR	FALF	FBAR
White blood cell	7.34	7.69	7.46	7.02	0.43	< 0.01	0.44	0.90	0.28
Red blood cell	12.99	12.66	12.92	12.62	0.32	0.13	0.82	0.23	0.95
Hemoglobin	14.07	20.13	14.21	13.68	2.56	0.26	0.14	0.19	0.12
Hematocrit	42.00a	40.56b	42.19a	41.28ab	0.63	0.01	0.38	0.03	0.62
Mean cell volume	32.36	32.21	41.72	32.83	7.67	0.70	0.43	0.47	0.49
Mean cell hemoglobin	10.83ab	10.62b	11.05a	10.97ab	0.18	< 0.01	0.06	0.34	0.66
Mean cell hemoglobin concentration	33.43ab	33.19b	33.65a	33.25b	0.23	< 0.01	0.45	0.08	0.68
Red cell distribution width	25.80b	25.62b	26.00b	27.26a	0.59	< 0.01	0.06	0.27	0.14

¹⁾Start date for all treatments was September 26th; End date for field and confinement treatments was November 25th.

²⁾Pen is the experimental unit, 3 sheep per replicate confinement, 6 sheep per replicate field; six replicates per treatment.

³⁾Diets were provided to allow for ad libitum intake.

⁴⁾CALF: pellet containing 71% alfalfa, 18% barley, 5% molasses, and 6% vitamin/mineral package; CBAR: pellet containing 60% barley, 26% alfalfa, 4% molasses, 2.5% soybean-hi pro, and 7.5% vitamin/mineral package.

⁵⁾FALF: field fed pellet containing 71% alfalfa, 18% barley, 5% molasses, and 6% vitamin/mineral package; FBAR: field fed pellet containing 60% barley, 26% alfalfa, 4% molasses, 2.5% soybean-hi pro, and 7.5% vitamin/mineral package.

⁶⁾All items are ending counts.

⁷⁾Location, confinement or field finish.

⁸⁾Feed, alfalfa or barley pellets.

^a,bLeast Square Means within a row with different superscripts differ (p < 0.10).