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T H McCosker,A F Turner,C J McCool,T B Post,K Bell,

Low and variable bull fertility was identified as a constraint on reproductive rates in beef cattle grazed in an extensive, multiple sire mating regimen on Mount Bundey station in the Darwin pastoral district of northwestern Australia. Erratic conception patterns were attributed to a high proportion of bulls with low breeding soundness evaluation scores (BSE), a high proportion of aged bulls (40%>8 yr), and to running bulls of mixed age groups. Liveweight, scrotal circumference (SC) and age were positively correlated. An experiment was subsequently designed to investigate the ability of a number of bull measurements to predict fertility in an extensively-managed, multiple-sire mating system. Blood typing was used to match calves to sires. It proved to be an accurate and useful technique which successfully identified the parentage of 94% of calves examined. Single measurements of serum testosterone after administration of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) were not correlated with fertility. However six of the seven most fertile bulls exhibited high peak serum testosterone levels in summer, and lower levels in the winter. In contrast, the less fertile bulls did not exhibit seasonal variation in GnRH-induced serum testosterone levels. Social dominance ratio was weakly ralted to fertility (r=0.51: P<0.05). BSE (r=0.51: P<0.05) and SC (r=0.49: P<0.05) prior to, but not subsequent to, mating were correlated with bull fertility. Under the conditions of this experiment, a bull to cow ratio of 1:20 was excessive for bulls with a satisfactory BSE score.

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Journal: Theriogenology

VOLUME: 32

Page Numbers: 285-300

Journal Abbreviation: Theriogenology

ISSN: 0093-691X

DAY: 26

MONTH: Aug

YEAR: 1989

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