Table 8. Whole blood counts of 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
White blood cell	7.41^a	6.62^ab	7.21^a	6.46^b	0.38	< 0.01	0.58	0.02	0.96
Red blood cell	12.28^ab	11.97^b	12.55^a	12.08^b	0.25	0.03	0.37	0.07	0.70
Hemoglobin	13.26^b	12.93^b	13.82^a	13.34^b	0.21	< 0.01	0.01	0.03	0.66
Hematocrit	38.84^b	38.84^b	40.10^a	39.28^ab	0.55	0.06	0.08	0.39	0.38
Mean cell volume	31.72	32.20	32.20	32.62	0.53	< 0.01	0.33	0.33	0.94
Mean cell hemoglobin	10.82^ab	10.74^b	11.04^a	11.05^a	0.12	< 0.01	0.02	0.75	0.66
Mean cell hemoglobin concentration	34.15^ab	33.39^c	34.39^a	33.92^b	0.24	< 0.01	0.06	< 0.01	0.48
Red cell distribution width	26.11	25.96	26.10	26.58	0.56	0.22	0.53	0.74	0.52

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 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).