Integration of maternal nutrition and pasture management: implications for the performance and parasite resistance of Texel lambs
Thais Fernanda Farias de Souza Arco, Camila Celeste Brandão Ferreira Ítavo, Gelson dos Santos Difante, Vanessa Zirondi Longhini, Fernando de Almeida Borges, Gleice Kelli Ayardes de Melo, Dyego Gonçalves Lino Borges, Priscila Bernardo de Andrade, Luís Carlos Vinhas Ítavo · 2026
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De Souza Arco and co-authors test how a mother sheep's feed shapes her lambs' growth and worm burden on tropical pasture. Fifty Texel lambs stayed with their mothers in eight paddocks of Marandu grass, half the paddocks mown and half not. Mothers received extra feed at either 0.5 or 1.0 percent of body weight. The team tracked weight, body condition, grazing, and gut parasites over the lambs' first 90 days.
Lambs of the better-fed mothers grew faster and scored better in condition by 60 days, and ate more pasture in their second month. Those on unmown pasture carried more parasites by 90 days. A separate creep feed for the lambs themselves boosted growth and resistance to worms whatever the pasture style. Lambs reached about 30 kilograms, a good weaning weight that shortens the meat production cycle.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Thais Fernanda Farias de Souza Arco, Camila Celeste Brandão Ferreira Ítavo, Gelson dos Santos Difante, Vanessa Zirondi Longhini, Fernando de Almeida Borges, Gleice Kelli Ayardes de Melo, Dyego Gonçalves Lino Borges, Priscila Bernardo de Andrade, Luís Carlos Vinhas Ítavo |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |