Estrus and pregnancy rates of Konya Merino ewes treated with a double injection of cloprostenol at different intervals

Archiv fur Tierzucht

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-60

  Tekeli, Tevfik ^a   Aksoy, Melih ^a,b   Semacan, Ahmet ^a   Karaca, Fikret ^a,b   Ayar, Ali ^c  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Dept of Repro and Artif Insemin ^*  (Turkey)

^c Lalahan Livestock Central Research Institute   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cloprostenol; Ewe; Interval; Pregnancy; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031541383     PISSN: 00039438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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