Abstract
Ewe body condition score (BCS) is known to be associated with many ewe production traits. Descriptive and multivariate analyses were undertaken on existing datasets comprising 266,405 BCS observations from 86,444 individual two-tooth and mixed-age ewes on six commercially managed sheep farms in the North Island of New Zealand. The BCS observations were collected at pre-breeding, pregnancy diagnosis, set-stocking and weaning between the years 2009-2021. Overall, the majority of BCS observations were 2.5 or 3.0 while 9.7% were BCS ...
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 28-32 |
| Journal | New Zealand Journal of Animal Science and Production |
| Volume | 82 |
| Online published | Jan 2022 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Research Keywords
- sheep
- ewe
- body condition score
- production
- welfare
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