Beta
ManageSearchChatDiscover
54258

STIMULATION EFFECT OF THE BEE POLLEN ADMINISTRATION ON GROWTH AND REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE IN MALE RABBITS

Article

Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

OverviewSimilar Items

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of orally bee-pollen (BP) administration as a feed additive on performance of male rabbits during pre- and post-puberty period. Ninety-six weaned New-Zealand White (NZW) male rabbits aged 35 days and weighing 658 g ± 6.30  were divided into four groups (24 in each). All animals were fed the same commercial diet and receiving a water solution containing 0 (control, G1), 200 (G2), 300 (G3) and 400 mg (G4) bee pollen/kg body weight, respectively, once-daily during the experimental period (184 days).Daily weight gain and daily feed intake were recorded from weaning up to 92 d of age (marketing age). At this time, four rabbits from each group were slaughtered and immediately their genitalia were taken and dissected. Blood samples were collected at 120 and 150 d of age from five bucksof each group. At maturity age reproductive traits were recorded. Results revealed that orally BP administration at the highest level (G4) significantly (P≤0.01) increased the final body weight, daily weight gain, feed efficiency and plasma testosterone concentration. The earlier puberty age was obtained by 400 mg BP/kg BW administration. Libido, mating activity, advanced-sperm motility, alive spermatozoa and morphological normal spermatozoa were significantly (P≤0.05) increased by orally BP administration, being optimized for 400 mg/kg BW. Histological examination of the testis and epididymis of treated rabbitsrevealed an increased seminiferous tubule diameter with active spermatogenic cells when compared with control group.  In conclusion, the addition of 400 mg/kg BW to the growing and mature NZW male rabbit diets improved growth and reproductive performance.  

DOI

10.21608/ejrs.2013.54258

Keywords

Male rabbits, bee pollen, Growth performance, Reproduction, semen quality

Authors

First Name

Battaa

Last Name

El-Neney

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Poultry Nutrition Research and Animal Production Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Nadi El-Said St., Egypt.

Email

-

City

Giza

Orcid

-

First Name

Khaled

Last Name

El kholy

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

Depart. Of Poul. Prod., Fac. of Agric., Damietta Univ., Damietta, Egypt.

Email

khelkholy@yahoo.com

City

Damietta Univ.

Orcid

-

Volume

23

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

7242

Issue Date

2013-07-01

Receive Date

2013-02-10

Publish Date

2013-07-01

Page Start

101

Page End

121

Print ISSN

1110-2594

Online ISSN

2682-3330

Article File

EJRS_Volume 23_Issue 2_Pages 101-121.pdf

PDF . 753.6kB

Link

https://ejrs.journals.ekb.eg/article_54258.html

Detail API

https://ejrs.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=54258

Order

3

Type

Original Article

Type Code

868

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Rabbit Science

Publication Link

https://ejrs.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

STIMULATION EFFECT OF THE BEE POLLEN ADMINISTRATION ON GROWTH AND REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE IN MALE RABBITS

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023