Body Condition Score
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 …