Abstract
Seventeen female mature anestrous does were used to study the effect of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) on ovulation (Experiment I) and on fertility rate and blood estrogen/progesterone concentrations (Experiment II). Laparotomy after day 8 of treatment with a single injection of LHRH (300 ug) and estradiol cypionate (0.2 mg/kg) revealed evidence of ovulation in two out of three and a developed follicle in the third. Similar treatment to six does in Experiment II, when followed by natural mating with a fertile buck, produced pregnancy in two does, pseudopregnancy in two and no effect (nonpregnancy) in the remaining two animals. The pregnant does had normal parturition after 148 to 150 days of gestation. In pregnant does, blood progesterone levels first showed a gradual increase until day 130 (10.07 ng/ml) and then declined sharply at 48 hours before parturition. Estrogen concentration, on the other hand, failed to increase until day 80, and thereafter it reached a peak (1800 pg/ml) at 24 hours prior to parturition; the level declined sharply at 24 hours after parturition. In pseudopregnant does, progesterone levels remained in close proximity with those of pregnant does until day 90, when they started to decline.
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