Hashim Hadi Al-Jebory(1) , Mohammed Khalil Ibrahim Al-Saeedi(2) , Ali Faraon Aobais(3) , Majeed Ajafar(1) and Ali Ahmed Alaw Qotbi(1)
(1). Department of animal production, agriculture college- Al-Qasim green university- Babylon – Iraq
(2) Department of Environmental – College of Environmental Sciences- Al-Qasim Green University- Babylon – Iraq
(3) Babylon Agriculture Directorate / Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture- Babylon- Iraq
(*Corresponding author, Dr. Hashim Al-Jebory- Email: hashimhadi@agre.uoqasim.edu.iq)
Received: 7/08/2022 Accepted: 28/12/2022
Abstract:
The local probiotic (Iraqi probiotic)containing Lactobacilli, Bifid bacterium, Bacillus subtilis, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used to ferment feed (FF) aerobically for 48 hours, after which dried and pelleted by pelleting machine in Al-Baraka grinder/ Babel government, 30 roosters were used in study fed on fermented feed with different level in poultry farm/ agriculture college/ Al-Qasim green university. The cocks were divided into 5 treatments T1, T2, T3, T4, T5 fed on F.F. (0, 25, 50, 75, and 100%), respectively, some qualitative characteristics of semen were measured, and the experiment continued for 20 weeks. It was found that there was a highly significant (P≤0.01) superiority in the total average ejection volume for treatment T5 and all fermented feed treatments in mass motility and individual motility of sperms and sperm concentration, as well as a highly significant improvement (P≤0.01) for all treatments of fermented feed in the percentage of dead sperm.
Keywords: cock, probiotic, fermentation, semen quality.
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