Optimizing a new 5-day CIDR-CO-Synch
timed artificial insemination program

Optimizing a new 5-day CIDR-CO-Synch timed artificial insemination program

Stevenson, J.S.; Pulley, S.L.; Mellieon, H.I.; Olson, KC; Jaeger, J.R.; Johnson, S.K.; Grieger, D.M.; Breiner, R.A.

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Publication Date: 2011

Conference: Cattlemen's Day, 2011, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 4, 2011
Starting Page: 14, Ending Page: 17
Publisher: Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service

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Abstract:

The 7-day CO-Synch + CIDR protocol is a popular ovulation-synchronization program used by cow-calf producers to facilitate artificial insemination (AI). A progesterone- impregnated controlled internal drug release (CIDR) insert is placed intravaginally and an injection of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is given. After 7 days, prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) is administered and the CIDR insert is removed. Between 58 and 72 hours after insert removal, cows are inseminated after another injection of GnRH to induce ovulation. Timed AI pregnancy rates generally have ranged from 40 to 60% when suckled cows are treated with the 7-day CO-Synch + CIDR protocol.

Keywords: Beef; CIDR-CO-Synch; Time artificial insemination

URL for this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8114