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A definition of the breeding season of Pool Dorset ewes
D Phillips1, E A Dunstan, S K Walker
1Department of Agriculture, Struan Research Centre, Box 618, Naracoorte, South Australia 5271 Australia.
Abstract:
The seasonality of oestrus and ovulation of 62 Poll Dorset ewes was examined over a period of 16 months commencing October, 1981. Laparoscopic observations showed that the majority of these ewes were anovular during the South Australian spring and early summer (September to December). The number of ewes with corpora lutea (93.6%) and the mean ovulation rate (1.62) reached a peak in June. Oestrus was stimulated in anovular ewes in late spring by the introduction of vasectomised rams. The mean ovulation rate at the teased ovulation was 1.68, although teased ewes did not exhibit oestrus at this ovulation.
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