Pregnancy rate evaluation of the profitability of any beef cattle operations, the profit or loss is one of the most important factors determining. Emphasis and focus on adequate nutrition and reproductive management beef cattle herd, but, unfortunately, most placed little emphasis on beef cattle operations kept. However, each beef cattle breeding season during a typical cow-calf operation in 15...

BACKGROUND Bullying (Bull) is a public health problem worldwide, and Mexico is not exempt. However, its epidemiology and early detection in our country is limited, in part, by the lack of validated tests to ensure the respondents' anonymity. The aim of this study was to validate a self-administered test (Bull-M) for assessing Bull among high-school Mexicans. METHODS Experts and school teacher...

Stray animals with incorrect microchip details are less likely to be reclaimed, and unclaimed strays are at increased risk of euthanasia. A retrospective cohort study was performed using 394,747 cats and 904,909 dogs registered with Australia's largest microchip database to describe animal characteristics, determine whether annual email reminders increased the frequency that owners updated thei...

Crossbred (Bos taurus) yearling beef bulls were assessed for breeding soundness and physical traits prior to multi-sire natural mating at pasture. Bulls (n = 60) were assigned to six groups of nine or 10 bulls and two bull-groups were rotated on 14-day intervals during a 63-day mating season in each breeding herd (n = 3) of 191-196 cows. The remaining bulls (n = 14) were maintained under simila...

data utilized in this study were 6800 records of lambs’ life longevity, and survival rate from 263 sires and 1839 dams collected from 1989 through 2009, from the lori-bakhtiari flock at shooli station in shahrekord. the data were analyzed, using linear and hazard ratio models along with weibul function. these models included such non genetic factors as year and month of birth, sex of lamb, type...

Individual bull spermatozoa were tracked over a distance of several millimetres, measuring as often as possible the time required to swim the length of the micrometer (310 \g=m\). In oestrous mucus from the cow's uterine cervix, the rates of some spermatozoa were found to fluctuate widely, while others remained constant for long distances. Homogeneity of the medium was tested by comparing mean ...