VGO 511: Veterinary Andrology and Reproductive Techniques (1+1)

BALANITIS AND POSTHITIS

• Balanitis and posthitis of a severe nature frequently leading to adhesion and inability to protrude the penis are occasionally observed in bull especially in young bull with great sexual desire first few weeks on pasture with cow or heifer.
• Trauma and infection incurred by frequent service and contamination of sheath or by exposure to the IBR-IPV virus in cow's genital tract result in severe necrotic & pyogenic infection of penis and prepuce.
• Young ram may be similarly affected

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