“…Various factors have been shown to influence water intake in domestic small ruminants including climatic conditions (King, 1983;Squires, 1993;Sirohi et al, 1997), species or breed (Aganga et al, 1989;Squires, 1993;Silanikove, 2000;Ferreira et al, 2002;Keskin et al, 2005;Salem et al, 2006), physiological state and age (Das et al, 1999). In addition, water intake is linearly related to dry matter intake (DMI; MacFarlane and Howard, 1972;Nocek and Braun, 1985) and thus influenced by feeding regime and food composition (King, 1983;Silanikove, 1989;Sirohi et al, 1997;Ferreira et al, 2002;Salem et al, 2006).…”