Practice Name:

Treating Infertility in Heifers

Affected Animal	Cattle
Affected Animal (Scientific Name)	Bos Taurus
Affected Animal (Taxonomy)	Bovidae
Affected Animal (Vernacular)	Gai, Gau
Category	Veterinary Care
Disease	Infertility in hefiers
Disease Attak Stage	At any stage virus may attacks the animal.
Disease Common Name	Infertility in hefiers
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Disease Distribution

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Documented by Tamil Version of Honey Bee
City / District	Cumbum
KVK District	Gandhigram Rural University KVK, Gandhigram, Dindigul Dt.
Address	Cumbum ,Tamil Nadu
Languages Spoken	Tamil
Vocation	Farmer
State	Tamil Nadu
PIN Code	625520

PAS_1	https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/10-steps-to-improving-herd-fertility-performance/
PAS_2	"Infertility in farm animals."https://vikaspedia.igriculture/livestock/general-management-practices-of-livestock/infertility-in-farm-animals
Agro Ecological Zone	Eastern Ghats (Tamil Nadu uplands and south eastern sahayadris) and Deccan plateau, hot semiarid eco-sub region (8.1)
Disease Symptoms / Clinical Signs
Disease Description	he most common cause of anoestrous is silent heat. In cows with a palpable corpus luteum, injection of prostaglandin F2α (PGF) reliably induces oestrous. A satisfactory treatment for acyclicity (ovarian dystrophy, ovarian cysts) does not exist
Disease Control	Focus on intake from eight weeks before to three weeks after calving. ... Turn her around quickly after calving. ... Ensure cows are not overstocked. ... Get cows lying down. ... Minimise change. ... Detect disease early and treat aggressively.
Disease Prevention	Focus on intake from eight weeks before to three weeks after calving. ... Turn her around quickly after calving. ... Ensure cows are not overstocked. ... Get cows lying down. ... Minimise change. ... Detect disease early and treat aggressively.
Precautions
Procedure of Use	If a heifer does not conceive on attaining puberty, 200 grams of germinated Bengal gram (Cicer arietinum)</b> is soaked overnight and fed to the animal every day for a week. <p> Along with this, the leaves and unripened fruit of yaanai nerunji (Pedalium murex)</b> may be pounded and given once a day for three days without adding water. After a week of the treatment, the heifer shows heat symptoms. If inseminated at this stage, the heifer conceives. Horse gram may be given in place of Bengal gram. </p>
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Practice ID	KNW0010000000708
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1280
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