Some Reproductive Defects in Farm Animals

Year 2025, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, 118 - 123, 15.01.2025

Ömer Faruk Yilmaz , Mehmet Akif Çam

Abstract

The importance of animal products for human health and development cannot be ignored. It is important for the sustainability and profitability of the enterprises that the animals raised do not have problems in terms of reproduction, as well as in terms of meeting the demand for animal products regularly. Depending on the type of animals used in production, the number of offspring obtained in a production period varies according to the reproductive activities of the animals and the care and management methods of adding the obtained offspring to the economy. In terms of reproductive efficiency in animal production enterprises, few or many reproductive problems seen in animals do not completely prevent the realization of reproductive performance at the optimal level. The formation of a new individual in farm animals covers the process until birth, such as the formation of gamete cells, fertilization, embryo implantation and fetal development. At the same time, the postnatal factors that take place from the birth of the new individual to its entry into the economy are also part of this process. Depending on the animal species, rates of embryo losses, genetic defects, losses due to disease and losses due to care and feeding errors can vary. The care that owners take in the selection of animals and the care and management methods they apply to them is decisive in reducing possible losses, obtaining more offspring and ensuring the profitability and sustainability of the business. In this review, it is aimed to explain the problems such as embryo losses, fetal losses and loss of offspring during and after birth and the precautions that can be taken against these problems in the process from the beginning of the formation of a new individual in livestock breeding until the new individual is brought into the economy.

Keywords

Reproductive disorders, Embryo losses, Care-management errors, Offspring losses

Thanks

This article was presented as an oral presentation at the VIII. International Congress on Domestic Animal Breeding, Genetics and Husbandry - 2024 (ICABGEH-24) Antalya, TÜRKİYE, September 23 - 25, 2024.

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