Técnica de ressecção do ligamento apical dorsal do pênis no preparo de rufiões bovinos

Abstract

Nowadays, in Brazil becomes necessary the attainment of methods of low cost for the detention of rutting in bovine females and one of the main traditional methods is the use of teaser bulls. These can be obtained with a great variety of surgical techniques, amongst them, the section of apical ligament, that although low cost and absence of post-surgical care, has not been practiced because of unsatisfactory results, probably due to lack of standard procedures. This study aimed to readjust this technique, considering the easy execution and low cost, standardizing it for any bovine cattle, becoming it efficient in any male bovine, from the puberty without dependence of race. 15 Parts of bovine penises in varied races and ages, varying of 12 and 28 months, had been obtained in slaughter houses for anatomic evaluations, with primacy attention in the dorsal apical ligament, getting in such a way a measure, based on statistical correlation calculations, for the attainment of the lesser density’s accurate place of this ligament and therefore the ideal place to incision and removal target ligament’s part. This measure was gotten doubling the distance between the portion proximal of the glands until the rafe of the foreskin in proximal direction from rafe of the foreskin. 16 male bovines, without emasculating had been selected and previously tested about the libido, divided in two groups of eight and submitted to the surgery of section of the apical ligament, through the measure gotten in the study of parts obtained in slaughter house, removal about five centimeters target of ligament. This procedure did not produced great post-surgical care and was gotten 100% of penis deviation, with mount without penetration, having materialize success of the technique’s readjustment. A group of bulls was introduced in the herd in the eighth surgical day after and the other in 15o day after, without difference between the two, demonstrating a reduction in the rest after surgery and becoming viable still more the technique, due to earlier teaser bulls activity. All the animals had not presented changes of behavior or reduction of libido during the 30 months of observation, demonstrated longevity of the teaser bulls gotten with this technique.