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| FUKUI, Yutaka; KOHNO, Hirohide; OKABE, Kentaro; KATSUKI, Sara; YOSHIZAWA, Masahiro; TOGARI, Tetsuro; WATANABE, Hiroyuki; 福井, 豊. |
| In this study, two successive field trials were conducted during the non-breeding season to investigate various factors affecting on fertility of Suffolk ewes after intrauterine insemination with frozen-thawed semen. In the first year (Experiment 1), three sperm numbers per insemination dose (0.25, 0.5 and 1 million sperm) and five sheep farms were used, and in the second year (Experiment 2), parity, age, body weight, body condition score (BCS) and postpartum days were investigated to compare pregnancy and lambing rates. High pregnancy and lambing rates (70.6 and 70.6%, respectively) were obtained with 0.25 million sperm per dose. There were no significant differences in the pregnancy and lambing rates among the five farms, but there was a tendency for one... |
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Palavras-chave: Artificial insemination; Fertility; Frozen semen; Sheep. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/2817 |
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