“…Other authors suggest that haematological variables in sheep may be affected by various internal and external factors such as age (ALONSO et al, 1997;EGBE-NWIYI et al, 2000;TIBBO et al, 2004;JENKO, 2009;ADDASS, 2011), gender (EGBE-NWIYI et al, 2000;TIBBO et al, 2004;ADDASS, 2011), season (KRAJNICAKOVA et al, 1997;TIBBO et al, 2004), shearing (CARCANGIU et al, 2008), breed (TIBBO et al, 2004;BINEV et al, 2007;RADIN et al, 2008;DIAS et al, 2010;ADDASS, 2011;VOJTA et al, 2011), lactation (BOUDEBZA et al, 2014) and nutrition (ANTUNOVIĆ et al, 2001;DIAS et al, 2010), and breeding model (VOJTA et al, 2011). Despite the many influences on the values of haematological variables in the blood of sheep, in most cases the values are within relatively narrow limits which usually correspond to the wide reference ranges published in the relevant textbooks (FELDMAN et al, 2000;KANEKO et al, 2008;PUGH and BAIRD, 2012).…”