Sentences with phrase «in anestrus»

For most of the time, a female dog's in anestrus, the resting stage of her menstrual cycle.

In fact, genetic screening of intact females for other parameters like von Willebrand's disease or wellness health and reproductive checkups should also be scheduled in anestrus females.

Not exact matches

Otherwise known as the prolonged anestrus, such abnormality occurs in females who previously had their cycle, but do not come into heat after 16 or more months.

Screening is initiated, therefore, once healthy dogs and bitches have reached sexual maturity (between 10 - 14 months in males and during the first anestrus period for females following their maiden heat).

The anestrus stage lasts four to five months in dogs who go into heat twice a year; it can be briefer for dogs who cycle more quickly, and it can last for much longer than a year in those who cycle once a year or less frequently.

For many years we breeders have been assuming that there regularly were differences in observable hip joint laxity between films made in or near estrus and those made in complete anestrus (not close to a heat cycle).