Semen collection, cryopreservation and artificial insemination in the dromedary camel
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Semen collection, cryopreservation and artificial insemination in the dromedary camel
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Aminu Deen,
Sumant Vyas, M.S. Sahani |
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Semen characteristics
cryopreservation artificial insemination camel Camelus dromedarius |
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Collection of semen with a bovine artificial vagina (AV) was attempted with each of 14 camels over a period of 2 years. Semen samples were evaluated, extended and cryopreserved. Frozen thawed semen, diluted cooled semen or whole semen was used to inseminate some female camels which were induced to ovulate with hCG. Males ejaculated semen into the AV in 74.6% collection attempts. The male copulated for at least 200s in 62.9% attempts. The remaining copulations were of shorter duration. Similarly, 49.3% ejaculates were at least 3ml of semen. Libido and donation of semen improved from December onwards and reached a peak after mid January with peak performance persisting until April. It declined during May. The majority of camels had lost libido and refuse to donate semen by the end of May. Camel semen is in gel form. While 35.9% of 203 semen samples exhibited no individual sperm motility, 28.5% exhibited low to fair grade individual sperm motility and only 35.4% exhibited >50% sperm motility. Differences existed between animals (P Not Available |
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2020-05-19T08:34:34Z
2020-05-19T08:34:34Z 2003-01-01 |
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Article
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English
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