Indian Journal of Field Veterinarians (The)
Open Access
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 2

Screening of extenders for suitability to cryopreserve patanwadi ram semen

  • Author:
  • S.P. Nema, F.S. Kavani

Department of Animal Reproduction Gynaecology and Obstetrics, College of Veterinmy Science and Animal Husbandry.MHOW 453446 M.P.

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to screen the efficacy of 13 dilutors for straw cryopreservation of Patanwadi ram spermatozoa. Though fresh seminal attributes were optimum, the post-thaw motility and per cent recovery rate in the most suited dilutors of all the five groups of buffer ranked in descending order as TFGEG, Phos, SCGEC, LEG and SMEG.

Keywords

Extenders, patanwadi ram, cryopreservation