Application of the egg transfer technique in cattle and sheep

H.R. Tervit, L.E.A. Rowson and M.F. McDonald

Ruakura Agricultural Research Centre, Hamilton

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Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production. 1974, 34: 56-60

The surgical egg transfer technique is useful for the multiplication of cattle and sheep. The present impetus for its application is the financial gain to be made from the multiplication of expensive animals and so commercially its use is mainly confined to cattle.

Experiments to improve the efficiency and therefore the application of the technique should be directed towards the development of successfully non-surgical recoveries and transfers in cattle, and, in both cattle and sheep, towards greater production of fertilised eggs from individual donors and techniques for the long-term storage of eggs.

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