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Buffering Capacity of Bovine Female Reproductive Tract Fluids¹

Animal Industry Group, Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington

ABSTRACT

Buffering capacities were determined for reproductive tract fluids collected from 191 cows being slaughtered at a meat-packing plant. On the average, the buffering capacity of uterine, oviduct, and follicular fluids was about 0.0225, whereas that for cervicovaginal mucus was 0.0132. Uterine fluid was more highly buffered against base than against acid. These buffering capacity values were similar to those for seminal plasma and were somewhat higher than values for blood serum.

¹ This investigation is a project of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station and is published with permission of the director.

² The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Pyung Ho Pak, William E. Moss, Ellis Mullins, James Yates, and Don Dowden in gathering the data for this report.