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MOET programme has helped in increasing the herd size of the desired variety of cattle. List the steps involved in conducting the programme.

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MOET stands for Multiple Ovulation Embryo Technology it is one such programme for herd improvement.
Steps :
1) Firstly, a cow is administered hormones, with FSH like activity to induce follicular maturation and superovulation- instead of one egg, which they normally yield per cycle, they produce 6-8eggs.
2) Then the animal is either mated with an elite bull or artificially inseminated.
3) Fertilized eggs at 8-32 cells stages are recovered non surgically and transformed to surrogate mothers. The genetic mother is available for another round of superovulation.


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