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Effect of Stocking Rate and Lambing Time on Gestation Length in Sheep

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ALEXANDER1 suggested that severe undernutrition of sheep may reduce the gestation length in sheep and he reported reductions of up to 3.6 days in gestation length in ewes transferred to a low plane of nutrition.

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  1. C.S.I.R.O. Division of Plant Industry, Western Australian Regional Laboratory, Nedlands

    H. LLOYD DAVIES & I. N. SOUTHEY

  2. C.S.I.R.O. Division of Mathematical Statistics, Western Australian Regional Laboratory, Nedlands

    D. W. GOODALL

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DAVIES, H., SOUTHEY, I. & GOODALL, D. Effect of Stocking Rate and Lambing Time on Gestation Length in Sheep. Nature 211, 998–999 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211998a0

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