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EVALUATION OF MILK YIELD AND SEMEN QUALITY IN MATERNAL LINE OF RABBITS

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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The study aims to evaluate genetically milk production of a synthetic maternal line of rabbits (V line) and semen quality of bucks. A total of 77, 70 and 70 does were used to estimate milk yield from kindling up to weaning for more than 4 parities. Twenty males of rabbits at 63 days of age were selected random and blood samples were collected to determine serum follicle-stimulating (FSH), luteinizing (LH) and testosterone hormones at the ages of 63 days and 5 and 6 months. Milk yield were 113.06, 172.87 and 211.76 g at 7th, 14th and 21st days of age after parturition, respectively. It is noticeable that the effect of the month had no significant effect on milk yield at 7th and 21th days of lactation period, while it was affected significantly at 14th days, and the month of December was the highest rate of milk yield in the months of the productive year. The effect of parity number more than 4th on milk yield was increased significantly with the advancement and decreased for other parities. The correlations between FSH, LH and testosterone hormonal levels and rabbits sperm concentration and advance sperm motility were significantly affect at 63 days. But, the correlation between FSH and LH levels and semen volume and total sperm out percentages were significant at 63 days. It was concluded that the semen quality was associated with an increase in testosterone concentrations at 5 and 6 months. In summary, it can be observed that the evaluation of the V line rabbit as a maternal line with high milk yield during the lactation period and that high semen quality for males V line rabbits can be predicted by high levels of hormones LH, FSH and testosterone concentrations at 63 days of age.

DOI

10.21608/epsj.2021.182516

Keywords

Rabbits, Maternal line, milk yield, semen quality, Gonadotropin hormones, correlation

Authors

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Intesar

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

1Animal production research institute, Agricultural Research Center, El-Sabhia station, Alexandria, Egypt

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sory20002000@yahoo.com

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First Name

mostafa

Last Name

shebl

MiddleName

kamal

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Dep. of Poult. Prod., Fac. of Agric., Alex. Uni., Alex., Egypt.

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mkshebl@yahoo.com

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alexandria

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First Name

Alla

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EL-Raffa

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poultry production department,faculty of agriculture,Alex.UNIV.Alex. EGYPT.

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aelraffa@hotmail.com

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First Name

Ahmed

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Abd El-Hady

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Mohamed

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Department of Poultry production, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University

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ahmed75atta@yahoo.com

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Alexandria

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0000-0003-0453-4010

First Name

Amira

Last Name

El-Deghadi

MiddleName

Soliman

Affiliation

1Animal production research institute, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt

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aboelfadleziadmagdy@gmail.com

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Cairo

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Volume

41

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2

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26284

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2021-05-27

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2021-06-01

Page Start

413

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428

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1110-5623

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2090-0570

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https://epsj.journals.ekb.eg/article_182516.html

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Egyptian Poultry Science Journal

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https://epsj.journals.ekb.eg/

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EVALUATION OF MILK YIELD AND SEMEN QUALITY IN MATERNAL LINE OF RABBITS

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22 Jan 2023