Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38273099›Full record

ArticleTropical animal health and production2024

The effect of climate index on growth values from birth to breeding in Akkaraman sheep.

Çağrı Melikşah Sakar

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Tropical animal health and production, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Çağrı Melikşah SakarInternational Center for Livestock Research and Training, Ankara, Turkey. melikksahi@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6692-763X
Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Under specific agroclimatic conditions, growth is an adaptability parameter resulting in reduced performance with decreasing animal comfort of a sheep breed. In this study, a total of 1011 lambs' live weights (LW) and average daily weight gains (ADG) in 16 different farms between 2018 and 2020 (birth to 18 months) were determined in Akkaraman herds raised in Çankırı Province of Turkey. Comprehensive Climate Index (CCI) was examined to determine the effect of climate. Thermal comfort limits in CCI values were classified as CCI-1.cold (≤ 5 ℃), CCI-2.comfort (5-25 ℃), and CCI-3.warm (≥ 25 ℃). The climatic values that all lambs examined were exposed to according to index value groups in periods from birth to 18 months of age were prepared daily. The lambs were exposed to comfort environment in the majority of the days in the MP0-3 (77.7%) and MP12-18 (50.1%) periods. The lambs mostly in the MP3-6 period (72.2%) were above the warm stress threshold, but in the MP6-12 period, 54.7% were above the cold stress threshold. Overall mean LW of lambs at birth, at 3, 6, 12, and 18 months were 4.29 kg, 35.1 kg, 39.1 kg, 45.4 kg, and 52.6 kg, while the ADG values between birth-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months, and 12-18 months were 341.8 g, 54.5 g, 42.9 g, and 56.8 g respectively. Periodically, CCI values were realized as 10-15, 25-30, and 18-22 in the growth periods of 0-3, 3-6, and 12-18 months, respectively, and ADG values of the lambs were found to be similar within their own periods. However, when the CCI values of the lambs increase to 5 and above in the 06-12-month period, there is a decrease in their live weight. As a result, climatic index values did not have a negative effect on the growth and development values of lambs in cold conditions in general, but warm conditions affected the animals negatively.

Indexed as

Weight GainAnimalsBirth WeightSheepTurkeyBirth weightClimate indexGrowthLambThermal comfort

Identifiers

PMID38273099
OpenAlexW4391238547

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.