Avaliação andrológica por pontos e comportamento sexual de touros da raça Nelore (Bos taurus indicus)

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Flávio Guiselli
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/5001
• topic: Andrologia veterinária; Classificação andrológica por pontos; Touro; Reprodução; Veterinary andrology; Andrologic Evaluation by Points; Bulls; Reproduction; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::MEDICINA VETERINARIA::REPRODUCAO ANIMAL

The objective of the present work was to study the relationship between two methods of evaluation (CAP Andrologic Evaluation by Points and Sexual Behavior) of Nelore bulls (Bos taurus indicus), and verify the accuracy of the tests to predict the reproductive potential of the bulls, by the gestation rate at the end of the breeding season of ninety days. Fourteen Nelore bulls were used, all classified like ables to reproduction, evaluated by an andrologic examination and submited to an andrologic classification by points (CAP) and observation of the sexual behavior at field (test of libido) by consecutives 12 hours. Of these, eleven bulls were evaluated in individual handling, with an average proportion bull:cow of 1:46 and the rest of the animals (three) were evaluated in a multiple handling, with an average proportion bull:cow of 1:23. The CAP had an average pontuation of 78.92 ± 8.92 (very good) and score of 9.85 ± 0.36 (excellent) for the libido. The greater the time of the test, the highest the libido scores were, but when the bulls were observed for the first hour as questionable, at the end of the test (12 hours) they showed excellent libido. The correlations among libido, scrotal perimeter (PE), physics and morphological characteristics of semen and the gestation rate were low and no significatives (P>0,05). The correlations among CAP, scrotal perimeter (PE) and physics characteristics of semen were positive and significative (P<0,05), but, for the morphologic characteristics, were not (P>0,05). The correlation between CAP and gestation rate was negative and significative (P<0,05). The correlation between libido and the CAP was not significative (P>0,05). The general gestation rate after a period of breeding season was of 74.69 %. During the libido test, the average frequency of the physiological events related to the sexual behavior was practically uniform among all the bulls, which showed higher incidence of smelling and licking of the vulva, Flehmen reflex (RF) and mount relflex (RM). When the behavior classification frequency were compared between the morning and afternoon period of observations, there was a difference between the behaviors classification like identification, precopulatories and others, except for copulation behavior. Showing that the identification behavior was higher in the morning time (from 6:00 to 12:00 h), while the pre-copulatories behaviors and others behaviors were more frequent in the afternoon time (12:00 to 18:00 h). These results indicate that CAP or libido test are independent evaluations and must be used like a complement of the andrologic examination.