Volume: 55 Issue: 3
Year: 2024, Page: 547-551, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2024.55.3.547-551
Received: March 4, 2024 Accepted: May 25, 2024 Published: Sept. 30, 2024
The study aimed to evaluate suitable hormonal treatment regimen for inducing oestrus in postpartum anoestrus Vechur cows and its reproductive outcome. The efficiency of Ovsynch and Ovsynch + progesterone protocols in 12 anoestrus cows was studied. Six anoestrus cows were kept as untreated control and they were observed for a period of 180 days postpartum. Both treatment protocols resulted in a complete oestrus induction response of 100 per cent. The interval from treatment to induced oestrus was significantly lower in the Ovsynch group (50.10 ± 1.44 h) than in the Ovsynch + progesterone (54.40 ± 0.48 h) group. In comparison to the control group, treatment group animals displayed a high intensity score for oestrus. The duration of oestrus in the Ovsynch group (26.41 ± 0.53 h) was significantly longer than the control (24.45 ± 0.46 h) group and the Ovsynch + progesterone group (24.13 ± 0.42 h). The overall conception rate for three consecutive AI in Ovsynch, Ovsynch + progesterone and control group were 66.67, 83.33 and 33.33 per cent, respectively. The calving to conception intervals were significantly (p<0.001) shorter in Ovsynch (118.33 ± 9.71 d) and Ovsynch + progesterone (106.67 ± 8.12 d) groups than the control (191.5 ± 5.36 d). It is concluded that hormonal treatment is effective in inducing postpartum oestrus and reducing the calving to conception interval in Vechur cows.
Keywords:
Ovsynch, postpartum anoestrus, progesterone, Vechur
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Sundar, V., Aravind, A., Jayakumar, C., Benjamin, E.D. and Kurian, E. 2024. Management of postpartum anoestrus in Vechur cows by hormonal methods. J. Vet. Ani. Sci. 55 (3):547-551