A comparison of inbred and outbred sheep on two planes of nutrition. 4. A note on the effects on some blood constituents before and after exposures to acute cold or head

Abstract

Earlier reports have shown that inbred sheep were smaller than outbreds although they grew at a similar rate (Wiener, Woolliams and Slee, 1988a), that both the effects of inbreeding and of nutrition affected cold resistance and heat tolerance (Slee, Wiener and Woolliams, 1988) and that all these factors influenced semen quality (Wiener, Woolliams and Slee, 1988b). The present report deals with a number of constituents in the blood of the same experimental animals.