Effect of rumen degradable bolus containing melatonin or progestagen pessary plus pregnant mare serum gonadotropin on estrus response and lambing rate in ewes.

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Effect of rumen degradable bolus containing melatonin or progestagen pessary plus pregnant mare serum gonadotropin on estrus response and lambing rate in ewes. Abstract Text:

T F Crosby,D O'callaghan,

Two practical regimens designed to induce estrus and ovulation in ewes in late anestrus were compared. Forty ewes were given a soluble glass rumen bolus containing 150 mg melatonin on July 9 and were joined with two vasectomized rams on July 23 and with three fertile rams on August 6. A second group of 40 ewes was treated with an intravaginal progestagen pessary (60mg medroxy-progesterone acetate) on July 23. Following pessary removal after 12 d, ewes were given 750 IU of pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG). Five fertile rams were joined with these ewes 48 h after progestagen removal. Melatonin concentrations were determined in single blood samples collected in early afternoon of July 21. Mating dates, lambing dates and litter sizes were recorded. Date of mating was significantly later in ewes treated with melatonin compared with those treated with progestagen plus PMSG (P<0.0001). All ewes given melatonin were mated within 4 wk, and those on progestagen plus PMSG treatment within one day of fertile ram introduction. Thirty-four ewes (85%) allocated to melatonin treatment and 36 (90%) allocated to progestagen plus PMSG treatment lambed (P>0.05). Mean (+/-SEM) lambing date was later in melatonin-treated ewes (January 17+/-1.2 d) compared to those given progestagen plus PMSG (December 30+/-0.6 d; P<0.0001). Mean litter size was lower in melatonin-treated ewes (1.5+/-0.1) compared with those given progestagen plus PMSG (2.0+/-0.1; P<0.001). Plasma melatonin concentrations indicated that 9 of 40 ewes treated with melatonin had circulating melatonin concentrations of less than 16 pg/ml. It is concluded that under conditions that existed in this experiment, treatment with progestagen plus PMSG in late anestrus resulted in more synchronous mating and lambing and a higher litter size than that following administration of a soluble glass rumen-degradable bolus containing melatonin.

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Effect of rumen degradable bolus containing melatonin or progestagen pessary plus pregnant mare serum gonadotropin on estrus response and lambing rate in ewes. Journal Published:

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Journal: Theriogenology

VOLUME: 35

Page Numbers: 747-52

Journal Abbreviation: Theriogenology

ISSN: 0093-691X

DAY: 26

MONTH: Apr

YEAR: 1991

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