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US 12,768,848 B2Granted
Fluid MAA/SAA levels as mammal management tools
AssigneeWilliam E. Julien
InventorWilliam Julien
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Abstract
The use of SAA/MAA levels in mammalian fluids to develop management strategies that maximize mammalian health, productivity, and economic return including for example the formulation of cost effective nutritional management strategies, determining whether an individual mammal should be retained in a herd or culled, determining the value of the individual mammal as a contributor of genetic material for herd replacement, determining a course of immediate and/or prophylactic health care intervention, etc.
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A method of cattle breeding, comprising:
- obtaining or having obtained a sample of semen from an individual intact male;
- performing or having performed a measurement of the concentration of serum associated amyloid A (SAA) in the sample;
- and either:
- inseminating a female with the semen of the individual intact male if the concentration of SAA in the sample is at least 300 ng/ml, or
- not inseminating a female with the semen of individual intact male if the concentration of SAA in the sample is not at least 300 ng/ml and optionally processing the intact male for beef,
- wherein the intact male is a bull and the female is a cow or heifer.
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