Table 7. Whole blood counts of crossbred lambs consuming either a forage or grain based diet while in confinement or on wheat stubble fields in yr 1¹⁾

Item⁶⁾	Treatment^2,3)				SEM	p-value
	Confinement⁴⁾		Field⁵⁾			Model	Location⁷⁾	Feed⁸⁾	Location × Feed
	CALF	CBAR	FALF	FBAR		Model	Location⁷⁾	Feed⁸⁾	Location × Feed
White blood cell	7.34	7.69	7.46	7.02	0.43	< 0.01	0.44	0.90	0.28
Red blood cell	12.99	12.66	12.92	12.62	0.32	0.13	0.82	0.23	0.95
Hemoglobin	14.07	20.13	14.21	13.68	2.56	0.26	0.14	0.19	0.12
Hematocrit	42.00^a	40.56^b	42.19^a	41.28^ab	0.63	0.01	0.38	0.03	0.62
Mean cell volume	32.36	32.21	41.72	32.83	7.67	0.70	0.43	0.47	0.49
Mean cell hemoglobin	10.83^ab	10.62^b	11.05^a	10.97^ab	0.18	< 0.01	0.06	0.34	0.66
Mean cell hemoglobin concentration	33.43^ab	33.19^b	33.65^a	33.25^b	0.23	< 0.01	0.45	0.08	0.68
Red cell distribution width	25.80^b	25.62^b	26.00^b	27.26^a	0.59	< 0.01	0.06	0.27	0.14

Start date for all treatments was September 26th; End date for field and confinement treatments was November 25th.
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 items are ending counts.
Location, confinement or field finish.
Feed, alfalfa or barley pellets.
Least Square Means within a row with different superscripts differ (p < 0.10).