The goal of this experiment was to evaluate if biostimulation may favourably change the reproductive performance of beef heifers on their first breeding season. For this purpose, 50 days before the artificial insemination (AI) period, 60 two-year-old heifers (Hereford x Nelore) were randomly distributed into two treatment groups: biostimulatated (BE) using a ruffian or not biostimulated (NE). The rates of cycling heifers before AI were 76 and 56% for BE e NE, respectively. Conception rates were 90 and 73% for BE e NE, respectively. Biostimulation changed accumulated percents of inseminated heifers by the end of 21 days periods during AI, without changing mean conception day. It was observed the effect of age/body development in the responses to biostimulation.
biostimulation; heifers; male-effect; reproductive performance
