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Maintaining bucks over 35 days after a male effect improves pregnancy rate in goats

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The ovulation can be induced by the introduction of a male among a group of anovulatory goats, a phenomenon called the 'male effect'. The objective of this study was to determine whether maintaining bucks over 35 days after the initial introduction of males, improves pregnancy rate in goats. Weused sexually active bucks, which were joined (n = 2 each) with three groups of goats (n = 30 each): (i) males remained with females for 15 days (Control group); (ii) males remained with females for 35 days (same buck group); (iii) males were removed at Day 23 and replaced by other males, which were not familiar to the females and which remained with females until Day 35 (new buck group). Percentage of goats ovulating did not differ among groups at Day 19 (>= 87%; P = 0.12). Pregnancy rates at Day 35 did not differ between groups (>= 70%; P = 0.90). At Day 55, pregnancy rates were similar in the same and new buck groups (96%; P = 1.0), but were higher than that of the Control group (73%; P < 0.05). Therefore, maintaining bucks over 35 days after the onset of the male effect improved pregnancy rate more than 20 points compared with females that remained with the same bucks for 15 days only.
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hal-01595722 , version 1 (26-09-2017)

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J. Araya, M. Bedos, G. Duarte, H. Hernandez, Matthieu Keller, et al.. Maintaining bucks over 35 days after a male effect improves pregnancy rate in goats. Animal Production Science, 2017, 57 (10), pp.2066-2071. ⟨10.1071/AN16194⟩. ⟨hal-01595722⟩
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