It’s a rare privilege to welcome newborn bison calves into the world. It’s even more rare when those calves are the fruit of your labour.
It’s a rare privilege to welcome newborn bison calves into the world. It’s even more rare when those calves are the fruit of your labour.
“I’m thrilled. It’s very cool to actually see something that I was able to start from an egg and then an embryo, and actually get a calf out of it. It’s very rewarding,” said Miranda Zwiefelhofer, a graduate student in the Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) and a member of the research team headed by Dr. Gregg Adams (DVM).
In early July, two Wood bison calves were born at USask’s Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence’s specialized livestock facility, southeast of Saskatoon. The bison calves are the first to be born from frozen in vitro embryos produced from immature eggs that were collected from live bison.
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Image via Eric Zwiefelhofer.
