Abstract
Thirty lambs of approximately equal age and weight were divided into three groups and fed farm ration, poultry litter-based silage and silage with concentrate. The animals were kept for 6 weeks. There was non-significant difference in erythrocyte count, packed cell volume, MCV, MCH, MCHC and total leukocyte count of experimental and control sheep at 3 and 6 weeks post-treatment. There was nonsignificant difference in haemoglobin concentration and erythrocyte sedimentation rate of control and experimental animals at 3 weeks post-treatment. At 6 weeks post-treatment, there was significant decrease in haemoglobin concentration of sheep fed poultry litter-based silage and significant increase in erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
