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The experiment was carried out on nine sexually mature, aged 1-3 years, clinically healthy bitches being in anoestrus. The animals were divided into two experimental groups and one control group. The bitches from the experimental groups were receiving zearalenone per os at the doses of 25 µg/kg b.w. and 50 µg/kg b.w., respectively for 100 d. The concentrations of zearalenone, progesterone, and 17β- oestradiol were analysed in weekly intervals. Zearalenone was noted as early as minute 30 and then during the whole experiment. High concentration of zearalenone (9.34 - 124.33 ng/mL.) was observed in weeks 6-9. The intoxication was accompanied by hormonal disturbances due to progesterone concentration (to 25-30 ng/mL) depending on zearalenone dose and by the increasing in 17β-oestradiol concentration (to 33 pg/ml). Hormonal disturbances of this kind are similar to those noted in different pathological conditions in the genital tract in bitches.