Facets of Estrus Behavior in Surti Buffaloes

Abstract

The Investigation was undertaken on sixteen healthy Surti buffaloes to document and characterize female sexual/ estrus behavior in Surti buffaloes maintained at Livestock Research Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat. Perusal of data revealed that in about 56.25 per cent of animals showed estrus during morning while remaining 42.75 percent in the evening time. Result of this study indicated that restlessness, frequent urination and sniffing of vagina, chin resting, chasing, bellowing, being mounted by others, mounting others and tail raising was the estrus specific signs in Surti buffaloes. The overall estrus duration, onset of estrus to ovulation and estrus duration after end of estrus were 22.19 ± 0.75, 31.50 ± 0.87 and 9.31 ± 0.48 hrs, respectively.

Comparison of the conception rate after fixed time natural mating and artificial insemination in estrous synchronized Murrah buffaloes: A short communication

“…Total 16Murrahbuffaloes were selected having normal genitalia and not having any history of dystocia or any genital disease, randomly divided into two groups one for fixed time NM with Murrah bull and other for AI with frozen thawed Murrah bull semen after synchronization of estrus (Figure 2). Expression of estrus was observed onward day 11 during the early morning and late evening for 20-30 min each time after estrus synchronization (Mohan et [33,8,4,23,21] , viz., visual observations: mucus discharge, bellowing (Qureshi et al 1998;Brar and Nanda, 2004; Singh and Barwal, 2010; Ashok, 2013) [45,13,49,5] and Vulvar edema (Danell et al, 1984; Ullah and Usmani, 1985) [18,55] and transrectal palpation (Prasad et al 1986; Singh, 2013; Gamit et al 2015) [44,51,22] . The status of pregnancy was examined by rectal palpation on day 90 post insemination (natural and artificial).…”

A hormone-based therapeutic strategy to reduce non-productive period in anestrus buffaloes during breeding and non-breeding season under field conditions

“…Estrus induction response characteristics at induced and spontaneous estrus were recorded using an estrus scoring chart (adopted as per Gamit et al, 2015;Kumar et al, 2019). The farmers were well educated about the estrus signs and their importance through on-site training.…”