Manejo e biotecnicas aplicadas a reprodução em bovinos, caprinos e suínos

Abstract

The report brings together information on reproductive management techniques and biotechnologies accompanied the period of supervised practice. Such techniques are performed to improve the productivity and profitability in agricultural large scale productions. The procedure was divided into three stages, where three species were chosen for monitoring. The first species chosen was bovine, where activities related to this soundness examination of bulls were held in São Francisco farm, belonging to the group “Agropecuária CFM”, located in the municipality of Magda in São José do Rio Preto - SP; Pregnancy and ultrasound diagnosis in cows and heifers held in Derribadinha farm belonging to group “Unicafé Agricultural S/A”, in the municipality of Carlos Chagas - MG. The second part of the work was carried out with goats, where reproductive management practices followed with males and females, which were, respectively, collecting and freezing semen, estrous synchronization, artificial insemination and pregnancy diagnosis, made in goat house of the Federal University of Viçosa - UFV, in Viçosa - MG. The third and final part of the work was carried out with pigs, first in the swine breeding industry in the Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Viçosa, in Viçosa-MG, where I worked with IVF; and in the Granja Xerez located in Maranguape - CE, which followed the part of reproductive management with males and females (collection and processing of semen, diagnosis of estrus and artificial insemination.