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                                                                <journal-id>j ad vetbio sci tech</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Journal of Advances in VetBio Science and Techniques</journal-title>
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                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2548-1150</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>İlker ÇAMKERTEN</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31797/vetbio.1470726</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Animal Science, Genetics and Biostatistics</subject>
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                                                            <subject>Zootekni, Genetik ve Biyoistatistik</subject>
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                                                                                                                                                            <article-title>The effect of birth type and gender on growth performance, live weight gain, growth pattern modeling, and survival rate in Anatolian Merino lambs</article-title>
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                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7170-270X</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Boğa Kuru</surname>
                                    <given-names>Buket</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>KAFKAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ, VETERİNER FAKÜLTESİ, ZOOTEKNİ VE HAYVAN BESLEME BÖLÜMÜ, VETERİNERLİK ZOOTEKNİ ANABİLİM DALI</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7794-8035</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Ölmez</surname>
                                    <given-names>Veli</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Sanvet Veteriner Kliniği</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20240822">
                    <day>08</day>
                    <month>22</month>
                    <year>2024</year>
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                                        <volume>9</volume>
                                        <issue>2</issue>
                                        <fpage>122</fpage>
                                        <lpage>132</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20240419">
                        <day>04</day>
                        <month>19</month>
                        <year>2024</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20240625">
                        <day>06</day>
                        <month>25</month>
                        <year>2024</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2016, Journal of Advances in VetBio Science and Techniques</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Journal of Advances in VetBio Science and Techniques</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                                        <abstract><p>In this study, the aim was to determine the effect of birth type and gender on growth performance, live weight gain, growth modeling, and survival rate in Anatolian Merino lambs. Growth performance was determined in 28 singletons (14 females/14 males), 80 twins (38 females/42 males), and 54 triplets (22 females/32 males) lambs in the study. The body weight of the lambs was measured on the day of birth (day 0), and at 10, 20, 30, 45, and 60 days of age. Birth type was effective on growth performance in Anatolian Merino lambs (P</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Anatolian Merino</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  growth performance</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  lambs</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  live weight gain</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  survival</kwd>
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