Authors : R.M. Abdelghafar , A.O. Bakhiet and B.H. Ahmed
Abstract: Early pregnancy detection in goats was not practicable in the country until now. The present study evaluated the use of ultrasonography in detecting pregnancy and determining fetal number in a flock of Saanen goats. Thirty one dairy Saanen does aged between 7-31 months were used in the study, they were housed and managed at the main center of the Goat improvement project, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal resources and Irrigation, Khartoum state, Sudan. Estrus was carefully observed and each doe was naturally mated twice at the 1st and 2nd day of estrus, thus the first day of estrus was designated as day 0 of gestation. B- Mode Real-time ultrasonography was performed starting from day 26-110 of gestation using Fukuda, Denchi, Japan equipped with 3.5 MHz extra abdominal curvilinear transducer. The accuracy of ultrasound in detecting pregnancy was 100% for both positive and negative cases. The accuracy of ultrasound in determining single, twins and triplets was 88.2, 77.7 and 50%, respectively In conclusion B- Mode Real-time ultrasound was found to be accurate, safe and non-time consuming method for detecting pregnancy and estimating fetal number in Saanen goats.
R.M. Abdelghafar , A.O. Bakhiet and B.H. Ahmed , 2007. B-Mode Real-Time Ultrasonography for Pregnancy Diagnosis and Fetal Number in Saanen Goats . Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 6: 702-705.