Scrotal circumference and morphometric in males Bubalus bubalis of the race Murrah

Abstract

In the present study the scrotal circumference of male buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis, Murrah race) was characterized and its relationship with other morphometric parameters was defined. The study was realized at “El Mosquito” farm, in San Marcos municipality in Sucre, Colombia. Fourteen (14) male buffaloes were taken from their weaning to twenty months old. These animals were subjected to testis measures (SC, testis longitude), body weight, and croup height, every twenty-eight days. To establish SC of the group under study, descriptive statistics was used, mean and standard deviation. In the same way, simple correlation analysis between SC with age, weight, croup height and testicular length (right and left). SC increased during experimental monitoring from 12, 4 ± 1, 0 cm to 20, 2 ± 1,4 cm. The weight ranged from 162, 1 ± 24, 9 kg to 323, 8 ± 39,8 kg. LTD fluctuated from 4,0 ± 0,7 cm to 7,4±0,7 cm. LTI began from 4,2 ± 0,5 cm and finished in 6,9 ± 0,6 cm and height rump at 10 months, was 104 ± 4,4 ± 3,4 cm to 118 cm at 20 months old male buffaloes studied. In conclusion, correlations between CE and age, weight, right and left testis length height and height haunch were: r = 0, 84; 0, 90; 0, 93; 0.91, and 0, 71 respectively. It´s concluded growth to SC was not uniform, also a high correlation was found between SC and morphometric parameters studied.

Keywords

• Correlación
• búfalo
• morfométría
• reproducción.