Mating Season Influences Placental Characteristics, Plasma IGF Concentration, and mRNA Expression without Affecting Lamb Birth Weight in Akkaraman Ewes

Table 2

Post-lambing body weights and body condition scores of ewes, along with lambs’ birth weights and placental traits (means ± SEM).

Traits	Seasons
	Breeding	Out-of-breeding
Post-lambing weight (kg)	52.4 ± 3.1	47.1 ± 2.9
Body condition score	2.5 ± 0.2	2.4 ± 0.2
Lamb birth weight (g)	4973.1 ± 107.1	5048.4 ± 192.0
Placental weight (g)	264.7 ± 13.50	241.1 ± 19.51
Total cotyledon weight (g)	85.3 ± 4.6^a	70.9 ± 6.4^b
Small cotyledon weight (g)	13.2 ± 1.3	14.2 ± 2.2
Medium cotyledon weight (g)	38.6 ± 2.2	33.6 ± 2.8
Large cotyledon weight (g)	33.6 ± 3.7^a	23.1 ± 3.3^b

^a,bDifferent superscript letters in the same row indicate a significant difference, ; .