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Effects of Body Condition and Protein Supplementation on LH Secretion and Luteal Function in Sheep 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
CA Meza-Herrera T Ross D Hallford D Hawkins A Gonzalez-Bulnes 《Reproduction in domestic animals》2007,42(5):461-465
In ruminants, nutrition is one of the exogenous inputs affecting reproductive function at different levels of the hypothalamic-hypophyseal-gonadal axis. However, the exact mechanisms or even the identification of the signalling metabolic compounds by which nutrition affects reproductive function still need further clarification. The role of static body condition (BC) and its interaction with a short-term protein supplementation (PL), on secretion of metabolic hormones [growth hormone (GH), insulin and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1)], as well as on secretion of LH and progesterone (P4) was evaluated in sheep. Twenty-four Rambouillet ewes divided into two groups, with lower (LBC) and higher body condition (HBC), were randomly assigned within BC to one of two PL levels: low (LPL, 24% of crude protein; 14 g/animal/day), and high (HPL, 44% of crude protein; 30 g/animal/day). The secretion of GH, insulin, IGF-1 and LH was evaluated on day 10 of the oestrous cycle; appearance and timing of oestrous behaviour were previously detected using rams. Progesterone secretion was evaluated on day 13 of the same cycle. No differences were found (p > 0.05) between PL groups on serum GH concentrations during the sampling period (overall mean of 4.0 +/- 0.3 ng/ml), but a trend for lower values in HBC sheep was found (3.6 +/- 0.4 vs 4.4 +/- 0.4 ng/ml, p = 0.06). A BC effect was observed (p < 0.05) on serum IGF-1 level, with higher values in HBC sheep (p < 0.05). Neither BC nor PL affected (p > 0.05) secretion of LH and the number of corpora lutea, nor serum P4 and insulin concentrations. Results indicate a predominance of the static component of nutrition on sheep metabolic hormone responses, GH and IGF-1, with no effect of short-term PL on secretion of pituitary and ovarian hormones as well as luteal number and activity. 相似文献
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Urrutia-Morales J Meza-Herrera CA Tello-Varela L Díaz-Gómez MO Beltrán-López S 《Tropical animal health and production》2012,44(7):1473-1477
The aim of this study was to evaluate possible effects of improved protein and energy diet upon reproductive outcomes of adult goats under marginal rangeland grazing conditions and exposed to the male effect during the anoestrous-dry season. Adult goats (Nubian × Criollo, nonpregnant, nonlactating, n?=?160, 22° 50' N, 100° 59' W, 1,653?m) were randomly divided in two experimental groups: Control (CG; n?=?80) and Supplemented (SG; n?=?80). Both CG and SG goats were kept together during the day for ranging a semiarid rangeland while separated accordingly at night. SG goats were individually supplemented [400?g?kg(-1)?day(-1)?; 14% CP and 2.92 Mcal DE kg(-1)] during a 30-day period. Thereafter, both the CG [35.5?±?0.94?kg LW, 1.95?±?0.06 U, body condition score (BCS)] and the SG [39.5?±?0.94?kg LW, 2.29?±?0.06 BCS] were exposed to adult males (Nubian, n?=?4, two per group) of proven libido and fertility and kept together at night (1700-0900) during a 42-day experimental breeding period. At the beginning of the breeding period, both LW (P?0.001) and BCS (P?0.001) were higher in the SG, which was also reflected in higher pregnancy rate (92.5 vs. 76.3%, P?0.01). Nonetheless, both CG and SG depicted an increased abortion rate (52.5 vs. 41.9% P?>?0.05), respectively. Results suggest that nutritional supplementation and the male effect were able to successfully invoke neurophysiological pathways to increase ovarian activity and to promote a uterine milieu prone to the establishment of pregnancy during the anoestrus season. However, the increased abortion rates observed in the study occurred irrespective of the nutritional regime offered during the premating stage. Therefore, there is a need to align the last third of gestation to the onset of the grazing season in order to increase reproductive and economic efficiency in those rangeland-based marginal goat production systems. 相似文献
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Dairy goat production systems 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Luis Escareño Homero Salinas-Gonzalez Maria Wurzinger Luiz Iñiguez Johann Sölkner Cesar Meza-Herrera 《Tropical animal health and production》2012,45(1):17-34
Goat production concentrated in developing countries (tropics, dry areas), contributes largely to the livelihoods of low and medium income farmers. Farming systems in these areas have evolved to cope with the formidable constraints imposed by harsh natural and economic conditions by adapting integrated crop/livestock production strategies. In Asia, Africa and Latin America, due to its almost exclusive extensive nature, goat production relies mainly on grazing on communal lands that hardly provide the minimum nutrient requirements due to overstocking and degradation. While some of these production systems are becoming semi-intensive, appropriate breeding strategies should be designed to promote conservation and improvement of their unique attributes, such as adaptability, water use efficiency and suitability under harsh climatic conditions. In Europe, dairy goat production is more common around the Mediterranean basin, where it is important from an economic, environmental and sociological perspective to the Mediterranean countries: Spain, France, Italy and Greece. Europe owns only 5.1 % of the world’s dairy goat herds, but produces 15.6 % of the world’s goat milk; this is the only continent where goat milk has such an economic importance and organization. In developing countries the dairy goat sector requires a systemic approach, whereby nutrition, animal health, breeding, know-how, inputs and technologies must be assembled. This would allow the optimization of natural and local resources and would promote the transition from a risk reduction strategy towards an increased productivity strategy. Such an increase would privilege production efficiency based on clean, green and ethical practices for responsible innovation. 相似文献
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Meza-Herrera Cesar A. Cano-Villegas Omag Flores-Hernandez Arnoldo Veliz-Deras Francisco G. Calderon-Leyva Guadalupe Guillen-Muñoz Juan M. de la Peña Cristina García Rosales-Nieto Cesar A. Macias-Cruz Ulises Avendaño-Reyes Leonel 《Tropical animal health and production》2017,49(7):1511-1516
Tropical Animal Health and Production - The possible influence of the “male effect” upon reproductive outcomes of adult anestrous goats under marginal rangeland conditions and... 相似文献
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Sawalha MN Kridli RT Jawasreh KI Meza-Herrera CA 《Tropical animal health and production》2011,43(7):1345-1350
This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of administering hormonal treatments (melatonin and progestagen/equine chronic gonadotropin (eCG)) on advancing puberty in Awassi ewe lambs. Fifty-one 6-month-old ewe lambs of similar body weights (around 28 kg) were randomly assigned into four treatment groups; control (CON; n?=?14), melatonin (MEL; n?=?13), melatonin plus progestagen–eCG (MELPP; n?=?11), and progestagen–eCG (PP; n?=?13). Ewe lambs in the PP and MELPP groups were fitted with intravaginal progestagen sponges containing 60 mg medroxyprogesterone acetate for 14 days; 400 IU eCG were administered to each of these ewe lambs on the day of sponge removal. Ewe lambs in the MEL and MELPP groups received subcutaneous melatonin implants (Regulin®, 18 mg melatonin) 36 days before sponge insertion. Hormonal treatment had no effect on ewe lamb body weight change. Estrous behavior was greater (p?0.001) in the PP and MELPP groups than in the CON and MEL ewe lambs. The duration from ram introduction to onset of estrus was shorter (p?0.05) in the CON, PP, and MELPP than in the MEL ewe lambs. The number of ewe lambs showing luteal activity was greater (p?0.001) in the MELPP and PP than in the CON and MEL groups. Lambing rate from mating during the first cycle following ram introduction differed significantly (p?0.01) among treatments being greater in the MELPP and PP than in the CON and MEL groups. Based on these results, it can be concluded that progestagen–eCG appears to be more effective than melatonin in inducing reproductive activity. However, the majority of ewe lambs in the current study either failed to cycle or stopped cycling following the induced estrus. Such failure in advancing puberty may be related to body weight of ewe lambs at the time of mating. 相似文献
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Meza-Herrera CA Ross T Hawkins D Hallford D 《Tropical animal health and production》2006,38(5):407-413
The effect of prebreeding short-term protein supplementation level (PL) and body condition (BC) on fertility rate (FERT,%),
uterine pH and embryonic mortality (EMORT,%) in sheep, was evaluated. Multiparous Rambouillet ewes at low BC (LC; n = 6, 62.7 ± 1.7 kg) or high BC (HC; n = 6, 71.9 ± 1.7 kg), received. within BC, one of two levels of ruminally undegradable protein: low (LP, 14 g/ewe per day)
and high (HP, 30 g/ewe per day). Once the animals were euthanized, corpus luteum number (CLN), as an indicator of ovulation
rate, was registered and uterine horns were irrigated to recover embryonic tissue plus associated membranes as well as to
measure uterine pH (UpH). While EMORT-1 considered a nonadjusted relationship between the number of embryos and CLN, EMORT-2
considered an analysis of covariance using CLN as the covariate. The HP-supplemented ewes had the lowest FERT (p=0.06; 100% vs 50%) and the highest EMORT (EMORT-1, 16.6% vs 53.8%, p = 0.08; EMORT-2, 52.0% vs 14.5%, p = 0.07) when compared to the LP-supplemented ewes. Neither BC nor PL affected CLN, CL weight or P4 release (p > 0.10). While the lowest UpH (p = 0.04) was observed in the HP-supplemented ewes, this group also showed the lowest fertility and the highest embryonic mortality. 相似文献
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Ulises Macías-Cruz Ricardo Vicente-Pérez Miguel Mellado Abelardo Correa-Calderón Cesar A. Meza-Herrera Leonel Avendaño-Reyes 《Tropical animal health and production》2017,49(7):1393-1400
To evaluate the effects of pre- and post-conception undernutrition (UN) on fetal and placental development at mid-gestation, 28 Katahdin × Pelibuey multiparous ewes were blocked by weight and assigned to the following four dietary treatments (n = 7 each): ewes fed 100% (control) or 60% of their nutritional requirements 30 days before mating (UNPre), 50 days after mating (UNPost) or during both periods (UNB). Four twin-bearing ewes were selected per treatment at day 50 post-conception and then slaughtered at day 75 of gestation to analyze their fetuses. Control fetuses were heavier (P < 0.05) than UNPost and UNB fetuses in 14.6 and 9.4%, respectively. Organ weights as percentage of the fetal weight (except for liver) and morphometric measurements (except for abdominal girth) were similar between control and UN fetuses (UNPre, UNPost, and UNB). Placental mass was heavier (P < 0.05) in control ewes than UNB ewes, but not relative to ewes of other treatments. The number of placentomes per ewe and placental efficiency were unaffected by UN treatments. Compared to control, only UNB ewes exhibited variations (P < 0.05) in the proportion of placentomes, specifically for type A (+13.8%) and B (?12.6%). Placentomes of type A and B had lower weight, length, and width of placentas in UNPost and UNB ewes than placentas of control ewes (P < 0.05). Overall results indicate that fetal and placental development of ewes carrying twins is mainly altered when nutritional restriction occurs simultaneously before conception and during the first third of pregnancy. 相似文献
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Luna-Orozco JR Guillen-Muñoz JM De Santiago-Miramontes Mde L García JE Rodríguez-Martínez R Meza-Herrera CA Mellado M Véliz FG 《Tropical animal health and production》2012,44(1):71-75
The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of treating sexually inactive bucks with artificial long photoperiod
or testosterone on the induction of estrus in anovulatory grazing goats. A total of 91 multiparous mixed-breed anestrous goats
were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: (1) joining with bucks subjected to 2.5 month of artificial long
days (16 h of light/day; n = 31), (2) joining with testosterone-treated bucks (n = 30), and (3) joining with untreated bucks (control; n = 30). There were no differences between the light-treated (100%) and testosterone-treated (93%) bucks in their ability to
induce estrus in anovulatory does. On the other hand, none of the goats in contact with control bucks exhibited estrus. The
interval from start of mating to estrus was shorter in goats with the light-treated bucks (37.9 ± 4.8 h) compared with does
in contact with testosterone-treated bucks (58.3 ± 8.7 h). The overall pregnancy rate in goats joined with light-treated,
testosterone-treated and control bucks was 84%, 77% and 0%, respectively, with no difference (P > 0.05) between the first two groups. Anogenital sniffing, approaches, mounting attempts, and mounts were highest (P < 0.01) in light-treated bucks and lowest in control bucks. It was concluded that testosterone-treated bucks and long-day-treated
bucks were equally effective in synchronizing estrus in anovulatory goats and resulted in similar levels of fertility. Given
that light-treated bucks are unviable in communal production systems of goats raised by resource-poor farmers, the sexual arousal of bucks with testosterone is a practical and reliable method to induce ovulation in anovulatory
goats in pastoral goat systems in hot environments. 相似文献
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The effect of flushing and stimulus of estrogenized does on reproductive performance of anovulatory-range goats 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
De Santiago-Miramontes MA Luna-Orozco JR Meza-Herrera CA Rivas-Muñoz R Carrillo E Véliz-Deras FG Mellado M 《Tropical animal health and production》2011,43(8):1595-1600
This study was conducted to determine whether flushing or the stimulus of estrogenized goats is necessary to achieve a high
reproductive response in anestrous goats on rangeland. Does were feed-supplemented on rangeland (flushed, n = 20). Other group was exposed to estrogenized does during the mating period (stimulated, n = 20). A third group was both supplemented and stimulated (stimulated–flushed, n = 20) and other group grazed on rangeland only (control, n = 18). More goats in the stimulated and stimulated–flushed groups showed estrus during the first 5 days of joining (45% and
60%, respectively) than the control and flushed groups (11% and 5%, respectively; P < 0.05). Flushing did not improve prolificacy and reduced (P < 0.05) kidding rates (40% and 35% for the flushed and stimulated–flushed groups, respectively) compared to 67% and 55% for
the control and stimulated groups, respectively. This experiment demonstrates potential shortcomings of use of flushing in
range goats with inadequate nutrition during gestation. 相似文献