Factors Potentially Affecting Fertility of Lactating Dairy Cow Recipients.
From: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, UNESP, Botucatu, SP, Brazil. vasconcelos@fca.unesp.br
Theriogenology
- Publish Date: Jan 2006
- ISSN: 0093-691X
- Volume: 65
- Issue: 1
- Pages: 192-200
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Vasconcelos J L M, Demétrio D G B, Santos R M, et al. Factors Potentially Affecting Fertility of Lactating Dairy Cow Recipients.. Theriogenology Jan 2006;65:192-200
Abstract
Objectives of this study were to evaluate factors that could affect pregnancy rate after embryo transfer (ET) in lactating dairy cow recipients. The trial was conducted at a dairy farm located in Descalvado, SP, Brazil from October 2003 to September 2004. From 1037 cows with CL that were treated with an injection of PGF2alpha, 43.3% were detected in heat; 263 were previously assigned at day of PGF2alpha injection for AI and 186 for ET. Ovulation rate was 85.7% (385/449). Pregnancy rate for cows with CL for AI and embryo transfer recipients were 36.5% (84/230) and 58.7% (91/155) at day 25 and 33.0% (76/230) and 45.8% (71/155) at day 46, respectively. Embryonic loss were 9.5% (8/84) for the AI group and 21.9% (20/91) for the ET group. Average milk production was 31.4 L/day/cow. Average daily milk production from 7 days before PGF2alpha injection to 7 days after ET tended (P < 0.10) to influence pregnancy rate on days 25 and 46. Average daily milk production from the day of embryo transfer to 7 days after influenced embryonic loss (P < 0.05). Cows with higher milk production had lower probability of pregnancy and higher probability of embryonic loss. Cows with higher days in milk had higher probability of pregnancy. Cows with higher rectal body temperature had lower probability of pregnancy and higher probability of embryonic loss. The influence of high milk yield and body temperature on fertility in lactating dairy cow recipients suggests that these effects can occur also after embryo reaches the blastocyst stage.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Body Temperature, Cattle, Dinoprost, Embryo Transfer, Female, Fertility, Heat, Insemination, Artificial, Lactation, Milk, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Rate, Random Allocation, Time Factors
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