Article
Risk factors associated with lambing traits.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jan 2016
McHugh N, Berry D P, Pabiou T
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to establish the risk factors associated with both lambing difficulty and lamb mortality in the Irish sheep multibreed population. A total of 135 470 lambing events from 42 675 ewes in 839 Irish crossbred and purebred flocks were available. Risk factors associated with producer-scored ewe lambing difficulty score (scale of one (no difficulty) to four (severe difficulty)) were...
Topics
- Animals
- Birth Weight
- Breeding
- Dystocia
- Female
- Linear Models
- Litter Size
- Parity
- Parturition
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Risk Factors
- Sheep, Domestic