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Veterinary Medicine

2008

Buffalo

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Harvesting And Evaluation Of Riverine Buffalo Follicular Oocytes, Huma Jamil, Hafiz Abdus Samad, Zafar Iqbal Qureshi, Najeeb Ur Rehman, Laeed Akbar Lodhi Jan 2008

Harvesting And Evaluation Of Riverine Buffalo Follicular Oocytes, Huma Jamil, Hafiz Abdus Samad, Zafar Iqbal Qureshi, Najeeb Ur Rehman, Laeed Akbar Lodhi

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The low superovulatory response and poor recovery rate of oocytes are major impediments to the application of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer technology in buffaloes. The present study aimed to evaluate the comparative efficacy of oocyte collection methods, season (low and peak breeding season), and ovarian status (presence or absence of corpus luteum) on the recovery rate and quality of recovered buffalo follicular oocytes. For this purpose riverine buffalo ovaries were collected from buffaloes slaughtered at Faisalabad Municipal Corporation Slaughter House. To study the efficiency of 3 different recovery methods the ovaries were dissected (n = 291), punctured (n …


An Evaluation Of Subclinical Mastitis During Lactation In Anatolian Buffaloes, Erhan Özenç, Mehmet Rifat Vural, Esra Şeker, Mehmet Uçar Jan 2008

An Evaluation Of Subclinical Mastitis During Lactation In Anatolian Buffaloes, Erhan Özenç, Mehmet Rifat Vural, Esra Şeker, Mehmet Uçar

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Subclinical mastitis in Anatolian buffaloes (n = 71) in Afyon, Turkey was evaluated using 1637 milk samples collected monthly for 9 months. Tests applied to milk samples included the California Mastitis Test (CMT), somatic cell count (SCC), and bacteriological examination. The threshold limit for SCC was found as 130 × 10^3 cells/ml. Anatolian buffaloes are infected above this level and they are likely to be uninfected below this level. The highest rates of intramammary infection (IMI) per quarter (36.5%) and animal (69.1%) were encountered during the highest rainfall month of May. Candida spp., coagulase-negative staphylococcus (CNS) and Staphylococcus aureus and …