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The present investigation was a part of a research project that aimed to study thereproductive and physiological traits of the rams as affected by selenium dietarysupplementation and, housing heat radiation effect which is the change in animalsperception of warmth between the different parts of the building or between indoors andoutdoors of the farm measured by the difference in temperature-humidity index (THI) values. To carry out such work, the animals were divided into four groups (A, B, C and E) ofnearly equal average body weights and were raised in one shed, but divided to southernand northern parts. Two groups (A and B) were housed in the southern part of the farm(facing the bright sun day light), while the other two groups (C and D) were housed in thenorthern part of the farm (facing the cold air flow). One group in each part of the farmwas kept without treatment as control (A or C) and the second (B or D) was treated withselenium (0.1 ppm/ kg dry matter [DM] of ration as sodium salenate) orally. The results showed that dietary selenium supplementation improved significantly(P<0.01 or 0.05) most of the ram traits, during winter. Regarding the housing heatradiation effect, the results showed that the southern part was higher than the northernpart of the farm with 0.8 THI unit and such change improved significantly (P<0.01 or 0.05)the ram traits, during winter. With regard to the interaction between the studied twofactors, there were no significant effects except for the scrotal circumference and scrotallength which were high (P<0.01) in the rams supplemented with selenium and raised inthe southern part of the farm, under the sub-tropical environment of Egypt

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Reproductive and physiological traits of Egyptian Suffolk rams as affected by selenium dietary supplementation and housing heat radiation effects during winter of the sub-tropical environment of Egypt (Short Communication)