Progesterone supplementation before timed AI increased ovulation synchrony and pregnancy per AI, and supplementation after timed AI reduced pregnancy losses in lactating dairy cows》.pdfVIP

Theriogenology 79 (2013) 833–841 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Theriogenology journal homepage: Progesterone supplementation before timed AI increased ovulation synchrony and pregnancy per AI, and supplementation after timed AI reduced pregnancy losses in lactating dairy cows a b,1 c a, b, * Marcos G. Colazo , Antoine Dourey , Rajadurai Rajamahendran , Divakar J. Ambrose a Livestock Research Branch, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada b Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada c Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: One of the causes of poor fertility in high producing dairy cows is inadequate progesterone. Received 15 October 2012 Therefore, we determined the efficacy of an intravaginal insert containing 1.55 g of proges- Received in revised form 15 December 2012 terone (PRID) given before and/or after timed AI (TAI) on ovarian response, plasma proges- Accepted 19 December 2012 terone concentrations, pregnancy per AI (P/AI) and pregnancy losses. Lactating dairy cows at three locations were assigned (Day 0) to an Ovsynch protocol with (N ¼ 294) or without Keywords: (N ¼