[Studies on the determination of optimal insemination time using electrometric resistance measurements in heifers and...

Studies were conducted on how to use under the conditions of industrialised production in the GDR an electrometric method proposed by Soviet scientists to determine oestrus and ovulation date in oestric-synchronised heifers and cows. "Oestrometer-2", an instrument developed in the USSR, was used for 4,818 measurements of electric resistance in 700 oestric-synchronised heifers and 39 oestric-synchronised cows. The typical course of the resistence curve was confirmed by the results. Individual data variation together with unsatisfactory data reliability of the instrument, when applied to measurement at vaginovestibular mucosa, were likely to suggest that the method could not be used with good effect for high-accuracy determination of the ovulation date and therefore, was not useful in helping to save semen pellets after oestric synchronisation.