Pharmaceutical Control of Reproduction in Sheep and Goats

Overview

Journal Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract

Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Date 2011 Jan 11

PMID 21215891

Citations 16

Authors

Jose A Abecia

Fernando Forcada

Antonio Gonzalez-Bulnes

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Abstract

Small ruminant species such as sheep and goats are short-day breeders, which is a crucial factor affecting the offer of lambs and kids throughout the year. An appropriate management of reproduction allows ewes and does to breed in the spring to increase the supply of product to the marketplace on a year-round basis. Pharmaceutical control of reproduction is possible, usually through administration of hormones or analogues related to the natural estrous cycle, such as progesterone, prostaglandins, and/or melatonin.

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