The effect of body condition score on blood metabolites and hormonal profiles in ewes

By R. M. Caldeira, A. T. Belo, C. C. Santos, M. Vazques, A. V. Portugal. 2007

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Animal Science and Zoology, Physiology

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Citations in the corpus

• Blood Metabolic Profile and some of Hormones Concentration in Ewes During Different Physiological Status (2011, background): “Caldeira et al. (2007) concluded that ewes with lower BCS can have greater urea concentration.”
• Invited review: Body condition score and its association with dairy cow productivity, health, and welfare. (2009, unknown): “Similarly, McCann et al. (1992) and Caldeira et al. (2007) 5781INVIteD ReVIeW: BoDY coNDItIoN ScoRe Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 92 No. 12, 2009 both reported a rapid increase in DMI in lean sheep fed ad libitum until a BCS of 3.7 to 4.0 (5-point scale) was obtained, at which point DMI declined…”