Influence of exogenous steroids, nutrition and calf removal on reproductive performance of anestrous beef cows.

Theriogenology

Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Beeville, TX 78102 USA.

Published: March 1984

Methods for inducing a fertile estrus in anestrous beef cows suckling calves were explored in three studies. Trial 1 . Eighty-two primiparous and pluriparous Brahman-Hereford crossbred and Angus cows suckling calves were divided into four groups: 1) good body condition, high level of nutrition (GH); 2) good body condition, low level of nutrition (GL); 3) poor body condition, high level of nutrition (PH); 4) poor body condition, low level of nutrition (PL). All cows received the Shang Treatment (S). Following treatment, more cows (P<0.05) ovulated in the GH group (95%) than either the GL (61%), PH (58%), or PL (53%) group. Pregnancy rates were low and were not different between groups following the insemination taking place 54 hours after implant removal or after cows had been bred for 21 days. Trial 2 . One hundred fourteen two-year-old Santa Gertrudis-Hereford crossbred cows in poor body condition were divided into four groups. Forty-nine cows received S treatment and 65 cows served as controls (C) with approximately half of each group fed a high (H) or a medium (M) level of nutrition (SH, SM, CH, CM). One cow in the SH group ovulated and was pregnant 21 days after breeding. The remaining cows failed to exhibit estrus, ovulate or become pregnant. Trial 3 . Cows used in this trial were those from Trial 2 which did not exhibit estrus nor had a palpable corpus luteum present 21 days after implant removal. Cows were divided into 1) control (C), 2) wean (W), 3) wean + Syncro-Mate-B (W+SMB) and 4) Syncro-Mate-B + wean (SMB+W). The percentage of cows ovulating by 2 and 40 days after the start of breeding was similar (P>0.05) in the W, W+SMB, and SMB+W groups but all were greater (P<0.05) than the percentage of cows ovulating in the C groups. Pregnancy rates of cows in the W+SMB and SMB+W groups were higher (P<0.05) than pregnancy rates of cows in the W and C groups by two days after the start of breeding. Pregnancy rates 40 days after the start of breeding were higher (P<0.05) for cows in the W, W+SMB) and SMB+W groups than for cows in the C group.

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