By Dr. Rodney Kott and Dr. Lisa Surber, Montana State University
The use of both body weight and condition scores can help producers make important feed management decisions. Condition scoring is a system of describing or classifying breeding animals by differences in relative body fatness. 
Generally in the United States, body condition scores ranging from 0 to 5 are used, with 0 being emaciated, near death and 5, a morbidly obese ewe (Body Condition Scoring of Sheep). The …