Qualitative and quantitative assessment of bovine oocytes

The reproductive development of cattle is must to hasten the production of milk and meat. It relies mostly on the quality of oocytes. Thus the present study was carried out to sort out the superior ovary to be used in further research. Cow ovaries were collected from slaughter house, processed and categorized as right or left and ovaries with or without corpus luteum (CL). Morphology of ovaries were studied on the basis of length (cm), width (cm), weight (g), total number of follicles on the surface of each category ovaries, number of follicles aspirated, total number of cumulus-oocyte-complex (COCs) and then graded as normal and abnormal. Significantly higher mean weight (3.471.85 vs 2.441.76), length (1.940.34 vs 1.710.39) and width (1.360.34…