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Agricultural Reviews, volume 30 issue 2 (june 2009) : 79 - 93

EFFECT OF SEASON AND MANAGEMENT ON SEMEN QUALITY OF BREEDING BULLS- A REVIEW

M. Bhakat, T.K. Mohanty, A.K. Gupta, V.S. Raina
1National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana 132 001, India
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Cite article:- Bhakat M., Mohanty T.K., Gupta A.K., Raina V.S. (2024). EFFECT OF SEASON AND MANAGEMENT ON SEMEN QUALITY OF BREEDING BULLS- A REVIEW. Agricultural Reviews. 30(2): 79 - 93. doi: .
Artificial insemination is nowadays a widely used technique for the enhancement of genetic
potential of livestock species. But still the maximum benefit of this tool cannot be extracted as
there are certain inherent problems of semen quality like poor semen quality and poor freezability
with crossbred and buffalo bulls. Correspondingly, there is a genetic and economic loss owing to
disposal of these high genetic merit bulls. Semen quality is affected by several factor of which
season is one of the major factors. It exerts its effect on reproductive performance through
macro and micro climatic factors like temperature, humidity, rainfall, photo-period. On the other
side vaccination of exotic and crossbred animals for prevention of contagious diseases, as they
are more prone to them in turn has detrimental effect on the semen quality. Therefore suitable
management strategies are being searched for and incorporated, like laboratory procedures i.e.
the use of filtration technique so as to maximize quality semen production without discarding
too many poor quality ejaculates and re-scheduling of vaccination protocol to unfavorable season
in terms of semen production.
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