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675 Effect of water restriction on hair sheep breeds from different regions of the United States by Hussein, A.; Puchala, R.; Portugal, I.; Gipson, T. A.; Wilson, B. K.; Goetsch, A. L. is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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Twenty-four Dorper (DOR; 60 ± 2.8 kg initial BW), 23 Katahdin (KAT; 63 ± 2.6 kg BW), and 21 St. Croix (STC; 40 ± 2.7 kg BW) female sheep (0.9-8.9 yr) from 45 commercial farms in the Midwest, Northwest, Southeast, and central Texas were used to evaluate resilience to water restriction. Animals were housed and fed a 15% CP, 50% concentrate pelleted diet at 160% of the ME requirement for maintenance. In period 1, 2 wk in duration, ad libitum water intake was determined followed by 25 and 50% decreases in water availability in periods 2 and 3, which were 2 and 5 wk in duration, respectively. Water was offered at 0700 h and blood was sampled at 0800 and 1400 h on the last 2 d of each week. Data presented are means of values within periods, with breed and region means separated by LSD and linear and quadratic contrasts addressing period effects. There were no effects of or interactions involving region for the variables analyzed. During the baseline period, water intake was 3.59, 3.79, and 3.00 kg/d for DOR, KAT, and STC, respectively (SEM 0.140), and DMI averaged 58.6 ± 0.98 g/kg BW 0.75 . There were linear decreases (P < 0.01) in DMI from period 1 to 3 of similar magnitude for DOR and
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- Author
- Hussein, A.; Puchala, R.; Portugal, I.; Gipson, T. A.; Wilson, B. K.; Goetsch, A. L.
- Publisher
- American Society of Animal Science; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0021-8812)
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)