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Asian Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances

Year: 2009 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 1 | Page No.: 47-51
DOI: 10.3923/ajava.2009.47.51

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Alireza Lotfi

Country: Iran

Habib Aghdam Shahryar

Country: Iran

Keywords


  • Congenital abnormalities
  • taillessness
  • rat-tail syndrome
  • calf
Research Article

The Case Report of Taillessness in Iranian Female Calf (A Congenital Abnormality)

Alireza Lotfi and Habib Aghdam Shahryar
The aim of this study, is case report of taillessness abnormality in Iranian calves. Taillessness syndrome can be a lethal attribute in animals. In a village in the suburbs of Tabriz, a Northwestern city in Iran, a tailless calf was born. During the examinations and observations, no problem in digestion and faeces excretion was noticed and the calf had a normal growth. There was a small excrescence on the back of the calf where the tail grows. In this recent case, there was no rectal adhesion. The aforementioned calf was born through the Artificial Insemination (AI) of a native female cow with a Holstein bull. The cow is completely healthy and in her previous parturitions, it has given birth to several healthy calves. Comparing this case with the other reported abnormalities reveals that this anomaly is rare and the probability of its occurrence in female calves of dairy cattle is twice the probability of occurrence in male calves. Most scientific reports have shown that tail abnormalities occur when a native cattle is inseminated with a pure breed cattle such as Holstein. Future study about genetical reasons of Taillessness in native calves may help to solving of this problem, especially in Iranian hybrid (Holstein-native) cattle.
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Alireza Lotfi and Habib Aghdam Shahryar, 2009. The Case Report of Taillessness in Iranian Female Calf (A Congenital Abnormality). Asian Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 4: 47-51.

DOI: 10.3923/ajava.2009.47.51

URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ajava.2009.47.51

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