| dc.contributor.author | Mutiga, E R | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ogaa, JS | |
| dc.contributor.author | Agumba, GJO | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-29T13:53:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-04-29T13:53:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1980 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal 1977, publ. 1980 Vol. 42 No. 4 pp. 431-434 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0012-8325 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19802258077.html?resultNumber=31&start=30&q=mutiga+e | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/66155 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Rectal palpations for the purpose of pregnancy diagnosis were performed on 200 dairy cows and heifers at 35, 70 and 150 days of gestation. The cardinal signs used were: membrane slip and amniotic vesicle at 35 days; membrane slip and presence of fetus at 70 days; and fetal parts, placentomes and fremitus at 150 days. Of the 200 animals that were diagnosed pregnant at 35 days, 187 (93.5%) carried their pregnancy to term. The highest fetal losses of 4% were observed between 35 and 70 days of gestation. It is concluded that pregnancy diagnosis can be performed safely by rectal examination as early as 5 weeks (35 days) in most common dairy cattle breeds of Kenya. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Nairobi, | en_US |
| dc.title | Early manual pregnancy diagnosis in dairy cattle in Kenya. | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
