Open AccessESTUDO DA BIOMETRIA FETAL E UTERINA DE FÊMEAS BOVINAS ABATIDAS NO MUNICÍPIO DE MORRINHOS - GO
Author(s) -
Fagner Henrique Soares Dantas,
E. G. Damacena,
A. P. B. Rabelo,
Álvaro Araújo,
Álvaro Araújo,
Iriângela Mendonça Leite,
A. R. Costa,
Aline Sousa Camargos
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
colloquium agrariae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1809-8215
DOI - 10.5747/ca.2017.v13.nesp2.000224
Subject(s) - biology , population , zoology , pregnancy , gynecology , veterinary medicine , medicine , environmental health , genetics
Of the amount cattle slaughtered in Brazil, 50% correspond to females. Many of them are sentpregnant to the slaughter, mainly in periods and / or places of low supply of animals, where theremuneration to the cattle rancher is greater. In the municipality of Morrinhos, more than 90% ofthe slaughtered bovine population corresponds to females. In view of this fact, and in order toobtain more information about the slaughtering of pregnant bovine females, the present studyaimed to quantify the occurrence of pregnancy among the bovine females slaughtered in themunicipality. The slaughter of 406 bovine females was followed in the months of July and Augustof 2016. After the usual slaughtering procedure, the length and diameter of the uterus and uterinehorns were measured, and the length of the fetuses with tape measure, and made image record.These measures were analyzed to identify the pregnancies of the animals. The results showed arate of 46.8% (190) of pregnancy in slaughtered bovine females, the majority being in the secondstage of gestation. It is concluded that this fact could be due to a lack of technical assistance tocattle ranchers and a greater control in the slaughterhouse.