
O objetivo do presente trabalho foi determinar se a bioestimulação é capaz de alterar favoravelmente o comportamento reprodutivo de novilhas de corte em sua primeira estação reprodutiva. Para isso, 50 dias antes do início da inseminação artificial (IA), 60 novilhas de dois anos (Hereford x Nelore) foram divididas ao acaso em dois grupos: bioestimuladas (BE), através do uso de rufiões, ou não (NE). As taxas de novilhas cíclicas antes do início da IA foram de 76 e 56% para BE e NE, respectivamente. As taxas de prenhez foram de 90 e 73% para BE e NE, respectivamente. A bioestimulação determinou diferenças nos percentuais acumulados de novilhas inseminadas por subperíodos de 21 dias de IA, sem alterar a data média de concepção. Foi observado efeito de idade/desenvolvimento corporal na resposta à bioestimulação.The goal of this experiment was to evaluate if biostimulation may favourably change the reproductive performance of beef heifers on their first breeding season. For this purpose, 50 days before the artificial insemination (AI) period, 60 two-year-old heifers (Hereford x Nelore) were randomly distributed into two treatment groups: biostimulatated (BE) using a ruffian or not biostimulated (NE). The rates of cycling heifers before AI were 76 and 56% for BE e NE, respectively. Conception rates were 90 and 73% for BE e NE, respectively. Biostimulation changed accumulated percents of inseminated heifers by the end of 21 days periods during AI, without changing mean conception day. It was observed the effect of age/body development in the responses to biostimulation.
male-effect, bioestimulação, novilhas, heifers, comportamento reprodutivo, reproductive performance, SF1-1100, efeito do macho, biostimulation, Animal culture
male-effect, bioestimulação, novilhas, heifers, comportamento reprodutivo, reproductive performance, SF1-1100, efeito do macho, biostimulation, Animal culture
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