This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of nutritional supplements containing vitamins, minerals, and ammonia on the sexual and breeding behaviors in Ghezel sheep. To this end, 28 three and half-year old ewes (50±3 kilograms) with the record of giving birth to two lambs and 4 three-year old (90±3.5 kilograms) rams were used. The ewes were divided into two groups of A (i.e., treatment...

introduction as pregnancy progresses, nutrient requirements of fetus and thereby ewe increases and some changes in the levels of blood metabolites including glucose, cholesterol and total protein may occur. during gestation, maternal tissues contribute to supplying energy that required for fetus resulting in changes of ewe blood metabolites; however other factors such as breed, age, feeding typ...

castration of male animal's leads to a reduction in aggressive behavior, which animals will avoid wasting energy resulting to economic production of the animal, grows. it also reduces damage and bruising animals and increases normed meat producing at slaughter. in this study, 20 lambs ghezel breed in four age groups, group 1: one month (n = 4), group 2: two months (n = 4) group 3: three months ...

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objective: the aim of the present study was to evaluate artificial insemination techniques on reproductive performance in ghezel ewes synchronized with cidr during breeding season. methods: all ewes were treated with controlled internal drug release device (cidr) inserted into the vagina of the ewes for 14 days. all ewes were treated a single intramuscular (im) dose of pmsg was injected. in thi...