Effect of dietary supplementation with different level of lycopene in some semen traits for local geese males.

	Effect of dietary supplementation with different level of lycopene in some semen traits for local geese males.
journal of kerbala university
Article 1, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 183-194 PDF (0 K)
Abstract
This study was conducted at the poultry farm for department of Animal Resource, College of Agriculture at University of Baghdad during the period from 20/10/2013 to 28/3/2014. The aim of this study was investigator the effect of dietary supplementation with different level of lycopene on some semen traits for ganders. A total of 24 male of local geese, two years old were used in this study. The geese were randomly distributed in to four treatments groups, each group consisted of 6 birds. Birds were fed during the whole period on diet contain 15.2 % crude protein and 2927.3 Kcal metabolic energy / kg. Lycopene was added to the diets of birds at the beginning till the end of experiment period. The birds were reared in single separated cages during the experiment period. groups were as following: Treatment 1 (T0) birds fed diet without any addition of lycopene (control group) , Treatment 2 (T300) birds fed diet supplemented with 300 mg lycopene / Kg of diet, Treatment 3(T600) birds fed diet supplemented with 600 mg lycopene / Kg of diet, Treatment 4(T900) birds fed diet supplemented with 900mg lycopene / Kg of diet. Results revealed that dietary supplementation with different levels of lycopene resulted in: Significant improvement regarding semen traits like ejaculate volume, individual motility, mass motility, sperm concentrations, percentage of dead spermatozoa, deformation spermatozoa ratio and spermatocrit .

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