Effect of adding orange juice into semen diluents on quality and storage ability of cocks' semen

摘要

The effect of adding orange juice into the extender of cocks' semen on mass motility, individual motility, dead and abnormal spermatozoa and acrosomal abnormalities were studied. A total of 60 White layer cocks, 32 weeks of age, were randomly divided into 6 groups of 10 cocks in this experiment. Semen samples for each treatment group were collected on a weekly basis during the whole experimental period which lasted 8 weeks. The treatment groups were; T1- the control (fresh semen); T2- the semen extended 1 : 1 with Al-Daraji 2 extender (AD2E) alone, whereas T3, T4, T5 and T6 represented semen samples extended with AD2E extender and supplemented with 1, 4, 7 or 10 ml of orange juice/100 ml extender. Results revealed that after 0, 24, 48 or 72 h in vitro storage, the supplementation of cocks semen extender with 7 and 10 ml orange juice/100 ml of extender (T5, T6) caused significant (P