The remaining does were bred using the NC Synch with TAI method described below: NC Synch with TAI Method. Year 3 (2009-2010): Heat Check: 25 does synchronized, 21 bred, 8 does pregnant. Pregnancy rates based on ultrasound at 50 and 85 days after breeding.
At NCSU, Boer does that had kidded at least once before were assigned to either traditional estrus synchronization with AI following heat checking (Heat Check) using the AM-PM rule (if in estrus AM, breed PM, and vice versa) or the ovulation synchronization method with timed artificial insemination (NC Synch). The same technicians did the inseminations (with equal numbers for each technician in each treatment group). Does were housed together and were kept from sight, sound, and smell of all bucks until day 15 when all were allowed fence-line contact to an intact buck. These studies demonstrate the importance of making sure that AI occurs at the right time relative to the synchronized ovulation in TAI protocols. All breeding can occur on a single day that is selected by the farmer and/or AI technician, allowing for purchase and use of semen without long-term storage. A successful ovulation synchronization program with timed AI would allow farmers to add new, higher-value genetics into their herd more efficiently than with estrus synchronization and traditional AI. Whitley, N. C., C. Farin, W. Knox, L. Third wheel: the insemination of elizabeth barrett. Townsend, J. R. Horton, K. Moulton and S. Nusz.
CIDR removed; intramuscular injection of 3 cc Lutalyse and 2. Estrus synchronization reduces the amount of time required for checking estrus (heat) before AI. The times between drug treatments were changed to better fit the reproductive responses of goats. Comparison of two ovulation synchronization methods for timed artificial insemination in goats. All Years Combined: Pregnancy rate for does in Heat Check group (35 of 66): 53%. Third wheel: the insemination of elizabeth arden. All animals were bred by timed AI on day 17. All does were exposed to bucks via fence-line contact prior to the start of any treatments. Intramuscular injection 1cc Cystorelin and AI. Acknowledgments: Dr. Keesla Moulton, Elizabeth Bowdridge, Deanna Sedlak, Roberto Franco, Allison Cooper, Lorie Townsend, Ray Horton, and Joseph French. Half of the animals followed the Heat Check method described below: |. NC Synch: A protocol for ovulation synchronization and timed artificial insemination in goats. In recent research and demonstration projects at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and North Carolina A&T State University (NCA&TSU), ovulation synchronization methods for timed AI were compared.
Intramuscular injection 3 cc Lutalyse. References (peer-reviewed abstracts): E. C. Bowdridge, W. B. Knox, C. S. Whisnant, and C. E. Farin. Third wheel: the insemination of elizabeth taylor. Differences between years is not surprising given differences in weather and other variables that can change from year to year, though the exact reason for the much lower rates in Year 3 is not known. NC Synch 72: 21 does synchronized and bred by TAI, 11 does pregnant. This research was conducted for three years (2007 to 2010).
The key for effective timed AI is the s ynchronization of not just estrus but also of ovulation (egg release). Based on the research and demonstration work of Dr. Charlotte Farin and William Knox, North Carolina State University, and Dr. Niki Whitley, The Cooperative Extension Program at North Carolina A&T State University. At about 50 and 85 days after artificial insemination, animals were checked for pregnancy status using transabdominal ultrasonography. Because exposure to buck pheromones can shift ovulation timing in does that have not been in prior contact with bucks (known as the buck effect), it is important to be sure that does are managed carefully when considering the NC Synch TAI protocol. Semen storage may not be needed. Frozen semen from a commercial company (Superior Semen Works, Milton, NH) was used for all AI, and motility of samples was confirmed for each straw. Not labeled for use in goats in the United States.
A follow-up study was conducted at NCSU using 87 Boer and Boer-crossbred does that were divided into four treatment groups: Heat Check method described above, CIDR Method described above, NC Synch with TAI at 48 hours after the second Lutalyse injection (NC Synch 48) and NC Synch method with TAI at 72 hours after second Lutalyse injection (NC Synch 72, the NC Synch protocol used previously). After the artificial insemination breeding period, all animals were returned to the flock and managed through the standard operating procedures for the farm. Breed (AI) by AM-PM rule. These benefits allow for lower-cost, more efficient AI technology adoption. Pregnancy rate for does in NC Synch 72 group (11 of 21): 52%. If an AI technician is being hired, a single trip can be scheduled. Data on kidding, including number of females kidding to AI breeding date, number of kids born, number of kids born alive, and twinning rate, were recorded. The low pregnancy rates associated with the NC Synch method in the Upper Mountain Research Station study may have resulted from an early ovulation in this group of does that had not been exposed to bucks prior to the start of the experiment.
Blood samples were collected 31 days after insemination to determine pregnancy status (BioPRYN® BioTracking, LLC). The results are shown below: Heat Check: 22 does synchronized, 18 bred, 12 does pregnant. At the Upper Mountain Research Station, NCSU, NCA&TSU, and station staff conducted a demonstration and applied-research project using 38 Boer-crossbred does. These technologies would also be useful for goat farmers interested in using AI to increase the genetic merit of offspring. Estrus synchronization combined with artificial insemination (AI) is used regularly in cattle and has been useful for breeding management. Half of the does underwent the NC Synch method developed at NCSU as described above, and the other half underwent a CIDR method as follows: CIDR ®* Method.
In addition to sitting in on the Professor's classes, I've been spending a lot of time in his office watching old television. He'd not only read "The Divine Comedy, " as I had not, but he'd written an undergraduate thesis on the darn thing. The "reality" trend was newer then, and the idea behind this particular mutation, as you may recall, was to have seductive single types try to destroy the relationships of committed couples. "M*A*S*H" didn't even have the courage of its antiwar convictions: It was set in Korea, not Vietnam. "There are, like, three different thematic things happening all at the same time here, " the Professor is saying. Puretaboo matters into her own hands game. But the medium is too young to have produced masterpieces, and the civilized world could get along just fine without "St. Charlie Rose interviewing Mick Jagger.
In other words, it has to somehow develop character and advance the plot without destroying the basic framework of relationships that keeps the show going year after year. On the tube, SUVs scale sheer cliffs and float on clouds. 'He's Not an Icon You See Every Day'. You can vroom with wolves, zoom through deserts, slalom across snowfields and -- climb Mount Everest? Puretaboo matters into her own hands book. He headed off to graduate school at Northwestern, where he soon published a paper titled "Love Boat: High Art on the High Seas. " Next to Bart Simpson, Archie Bunker sounds like a choirboy. And from that mainstream could soon be heard an anguished cry: How are we gonna sell 'em cars and cola and shampoo and fast food and soap? The scariest moment comes just after my last talk with TV Bob. "What it shares in common with God is omnipresence, " he says.
It's his own Ultimate Hypothetical, on which he couldn't make up his mind before -- the one about whether he'd choose to invent TV or not. The climax of Francis Coppola's "The Godfather, " in which Michael Corleone orchestrates the simultaneous assassination of all his mob enemies while assuring the priest at his nephew's christening that yes, he renounces Satan. It's the one where Christopher's girlfriend latches onto the erroneous notion that if only they were married, she could never be forced to testify against him. "You could never do a family sitcom as gritty as this, " he says, "because it would be too depressing. And yet, as I listen to TV Bob describe the changes those CBS executives ushered in -- he compares them to an earthquake caused by the shifting of a culture's tectonic plates -- I find myself nodding my head. Now, with tonight's competitive dating segments wrapped up, it's time for him to reduce his harem by an additional 40 percent. This explains why it takes Carmela Soprano, who is no fool, way too long to confront her husband about his compulsive infidelity and why the short-fused, boneheaded Christopher Moltisanti is still walking the north Jersey streets. Nobody would watch it. And Betty -- who should, at this point, be smacking these two jerks upside the head with her thickest engineering text -- throws on her new dress instead and sweet-talks the guy into asking her for a date. "Fastlane" will show you sexy people with guns and lots of stuff blowing up -- check it out! Yet as an older, wiser and more cynical person, I can also see a less uplifting story line. Puretaboo matters into her own hands say. "Mary Tyler Moore" is hardly radical feminism.
A shaggy mutt puffing on a cigarette ("I'm a dog. She belongs to him, and he will break every rule in his carefully controlled world to keep her. Still, I managed to decode the joke. But of course, I'm not television-free anymore. "It looked like a third leg, " a young woman exclaims, referring to a male roommate who's been flaunting his aroused state. A man asking me to "prayerfully consider" the purchase of a tape called "Healing for the Angry Heart, " available this week only. He doesn't know the answer. The article relayed some of the predictable criticism the concept had been receiving.
He's a bit embarrassed by this now ("It's not very good; I was a child"), but never mind: It was a shot across the bow of an academic establishment that was disdainful of popular culture in general and television in particular. People often ask how I survived this deprived childhood, but the truth is, it wasn't hard. There is one in particular she can't get out of her head—the seductive Krinar Ambassador named Soren. I clipped the article and filed it away, but I couldn't get over the weirdness of it. But on the quality front, even It's-Not-TV TV doesn't have much to add. Yet it's also true that the thing has the deck stacked in its favor. It's because the Professor of Television told me to. There's just so much television out there these days, and really, I've watched so little. A boyishly energetic man of 43, which makes him almost a decade my junior, Robert J. Thompson might well be a candidate for scientific study himself.