STUDIES ON SOME MALE GENITAL MALFORMATIONS AND AFFECTIONS OF CATTLE AND BUFFALO IN EGYPT

Clinical observation and pathological examination were carried out on 700 buffalo bulls, 200 Balady bulls, and 2 thousands slaugh tered buffalo and Balady bulls, in order to record the common mal formations and affections of their genital tracts. Unilateral testicular malplacement, unilateral cryptorchidism, cyst in the caput epididymis, fusion of the ampullae and remnants of Mullarian duct were the mal formation recorded in buffaloes. Unilateral cryptorchidism was the only malformation recorded in Balady bulls
Among the genital affection observed in buffaloes were orchitis epididymitis and paraphimosis. The inflammatory process of thetesticle and epididymis was the most commonly observed affections in Balady bulls as well as prol...pse of the prepuce.