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Explain the strategy used for herd improvement in cattle.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

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Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer Technology (MOET) is one such programme for herd improvement.

(i) In this method, a cow is administered hormones, with FSH-like activity, to induce follicular maturation and super ovulation – instead of one egg, which they normally yield per cycle, they produce 6-8 eggs.

(ii) The animal is either mated with an elite bull or artificially inseminated.

(iii) The fertilised eggs at 8–32 cells stages, are recovered non-surgically and transferred to surrogate mothers.

(iv) The genetic mother is available for another round of super ovulation.

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