GROSS STUDY OF GENITAL TRACT OF INFERTILE AWASSI EWES

A. Omran, S.; A. Ishak, M.; R. Abbas, H.

	GROSS STUDY OF GENITAL TRACT OF INFERTILE AWASSI EWES
The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science
Article 1, Volume 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 105-110
Authors
S. A. Omran; M. A. Ishak; H. R. Abbas
Abstract
The present study was conducted at Al-Shuaia Animal Breeding Farm which belongs to the State Board of Agricultural Research, Ministry of Agriculture, from September 2000 to the end of January 2001. Fifty Awassi ewes were isolated from the herd of the station, after no pregnancy was diagnosed in these animals for at least one year.The reproductive tracts of these ewes were collected directly after slaughtering and subjected to gross inspection. Results revealed that 46% of these tracts had gross changes, whereas 54% were normal. The important abnormal gross changes which had observed included cases of folliclar cyst, fibrosis of cervix, double external uterine os, of curvy, vaginitis, para-ovarian cysts, ovario-bursal adhesion, pyosoalpinx and partial obstruction of oviduct in (2%)for each case, meanwhile the percentage of complete obstruction of oviduct, cystic corpus luteum and inactive ovaries were: 4,8 and 24%, respectively. It can be concluded that there was a considerable percentage of infertility and sterility in the ewes for different reasons; early pregnancy diagnosis by using ultrasound technique will help to isolate the non pregnant ewes.

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