Question for the Board

[Bonsman]

The clinic where I take my cattle has four vets. My vet was out, so I had a vet one year out of vet school do BSE test on five bulls. He used electroejaculation to conduct the test. He concluded that one of the bulls had a corkscrew penis. It is my understanding from some research at LSU that a corkscrew penis cannot be diagnosed using electroejaculation. I thought this could only be diagnosed by watching the bull attempt to breed.

Comments?

 

[redcowsrule33]

You are correct, he should observed during a natural breeding as electroejaculation can cause this in a normal bull. If he would like a reference:

http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/exten/singleton/bse/sld022.htm