STUDIES ON CLINICAL EFFICACY OF SOME THERAPEUTIC REGIMENS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ENDOMETRITIS IN COWS

Abstract

A total of 124 cows were treated with various therapeutic regimens by different routes. In the first group, Ciprofloxacin was administered through intrauterine route with clinical recovery of 87.88 percent and were inseminated in subsequent estrus with conception rate (CR) 48.28 per cent. In second group, clinical response was observed in 95.20 per cent to intra muscular administration of ciprofloxacin with CR of 50.00 per cent. Third group showed clinical recovery in 87.50 per cent animals administered gentamicin intra uterine with CR of 47.62 per cent. Likewise, clinical response and conception rate was 95.40 and 52.63 per cent, respectively after intramuscular administration of gentamicin. Similarly, 0.1 per cent Lugol’s iodine yielded CR of 42.86 per cent amongst 87.50 per cent clinically recovered animals. In untreated control repeat breeder cows, CR was 20.00 per cent whereas amongst normal cyclic cows 55.00 per cent animals conceived. Non-significant (p>0.05) improvement in conception rate was achieved in present study.

Keywords

• Endometritis
• Antibiotics
• Conception rate
• Repeat breeder cows