Effect of dietary levels of Zingiber officinale and Allium sativum on seminal lipid peroxidation and its correlation with semen indices in rabbit bucks.
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2018
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Nigerian Society for Animal Production
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To assess the effect of dietary levels of Zingiber officinale (ZO) and Allium sativum (AS) on seminal lipid perioxidation in rabbit bucks, twenty-eight (28) bucks aged 9 - 10 months were fed diets containing 0, 5, 10, and 15 ZO and AS g/kg diet for seven (7) weeks with four bucks per treatment. Semen was collected from the bucks weekly using an artificial vaginal. Samples of fresh semen were assessed for semen volume (ml), spermatozoa motility (%) and live sperm cells (%).
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Seminal plasma, ginger, garlic, malondildeyde, reactive oxygen specie
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Adeyemi, A.A., Ola, S.I., Ajao, B.H., Yekini, S.D. and Oloyede, O.J. (2018). Effect of dietary levels of Zingiber officinale and Allium sativum on seminal lipid peroxidation and its correlation with semen indices in rabbit bucks. Proceeding of the 43rd Annual Conference of Nigerian Society for Animal Production, I.C. Okoli, I.P. Ogbuewu, O.O. Emenalom and B.O. Esonu (Eds.): 253 - 256.