Vol. 11, Special Issue 3 (2022)

Author(s):
Nishi Pande, Rajesh Agrawal, OP Shrivastava and RG Agrawal

Abstract:
Uterine lavage was conducted in 22 buffaloes at 30±2 days in milk to define sub-clinical endometritis by endometrial cytologic evaluation. The study reports a high failure rate of fluid recovery in buffaloes. Satisfactory uterine lavage samples could be obtained only from seven (~32%) buffaloes. Wrights stained endometrial cytological smears revealed 2-5% distorted neutrophils. Due to high rate of non-recovery of lavage fluid (36.36%) or recovery of little fluid with copious mucus (31.80%), sub-clinical endometritis based on reduction of subsequent reproductive performance could not be determined.