Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the influence of age, sex and type of birth on the traits of growth in bergamasca lambs. The research was conducted on a sample which included 141 lambs (68 male, 73 female lambs), born from 2014 to 2015, raised on one agricultural farm in Vojvodina. The average body weight of lambs at birth was 3.67 kg, with 30 days of age 10.60 kg, and weaning weight 30.77 kg. The effect of fixed factors was studied within the frame of SAS software package. A statistically highly significant (**=P<0.01) effect on studied traits: average lamb birth weight (BW0), average lamb body weight at 30 days (BW30) and weaning weight, had all the examined factors.

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