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Relationship between body weight and testicular size in buffalo bulls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

A. M. Yassen  and
M. N. Mahmoud
M. N. Mahmoud
Affiliation:
Animal Production Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Summary

The relationship between body weight, testes volume and circumference as computed for 42 slaughterhouse buffalo bulls (Bos bubalis). Animals ranged in body weight from 290 to 610 kg, testes volume (testes plus epididymides without scrota) from 102·5 to 296·7 ml and testes circumference (testes with scrota intact) from 21·31 cm. Relationships between body weight and testes volume, body weight and testes circumference, testes circumference and testes volume were all linear and correlations (r) were, 0·986, 0·932, 0·951 and were highly significant. Regression equations were calculated and it was clearly shown that buffalo bull testes volume is a function of body weight and could be easily predicted either from body weight or from testes circumference.

Comparisons between the testicular size of the buffalo bull (B. bubalis) and domestic bull (B. taurus) based on calculations from prediction equations showed that the testes size of the buffalo bull was half that of a domestic bull of similar body weight.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , June 1972 , pp. 367 - 370
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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