Table 11. Ending counts of internal parasite eggs per gram (EPG) in crossbred lambs consuming either a forage or grain based diet while in confinement or on wheat stubble fields in yr 2¹⁾

Item⁶⁾	Treatment^2,3)				SEM	p-value
	Confinement⁴⁾		Field⁵⁾			Model	Location⁷⁾	Feed⁸⁾	Location × Feed
	CALF	CBAR	FALF	FBAR		Model	Location⁷⁾	Feed⁸⁾	Location × Feed
Trichostrongyle type EPG	50.92	10.97	28.51	18.31	0.51	0.29	0.92	0.04	0.24
Nematodirus spp. EPG	9.99^ab	0.52^c	20.62^a	5.60^b	0.53	< 0.01	0.02	< 0.01	0.40

Start date for all treatments was September 4th; End date for field and confinement treatments was November 4th.
Pen is the experimental unit, 3 sheep per replicate confinement, 6 sheep per replicate field; six replicates per treatment.
Diets were provided to allow for ad libitum intake.
CALF: pellet containing 71% alfalfa, 18% barley, 5% molasses, and 6% vitamin/mineral package; CBAR: pellet containing 60% barley, 26% alfalfa, 4% molasses, 2.5% soybean-hi pro, and 7.5% vitamin/mineral package.
FALF: field fed pellet containing 71% alfalfa, 18% barley, 5% molasses, and 6% vitamin/mineral package; FBAR: field fed pellet containing 60% barley, 26% alfalfa, 4% molasses, 2.5% soybean-hi pro, and 7.5% vitamin/mineral package.
All counts had an addition of a constant of 1 then were LOG transformed.
Location, confinement or field finish.
Feed, alfalfa or barley pellets.
Least Square Means within a row with different superscripts differ (p < 0.10).