THE EFFECT OF STEER AND HEIFER BLOOD SERUM IN SKIM MILK EXTENDER ON UNFROZEN BOVINE SEMEN
By Abdelrahman, A. M., Wilson, G. R., Threlfall, W. R., Davis, M. E.
Abstracts
Twenty four semen samples from 13 Holstein bulls, 6 to 7 years of age, were used
to test the effect of adding 10% heat-treated blood serum from steers and heifers
to skim milk e:-.:tender. The effects of serum on percent alive, percent motility,
percent heat-to-head agglutination (BRA) . and acrosomal damages of the
spermatozoa were evaluated in vitro at temperature of .5 °C and 37 °C The
analysi s of variance showed significant difference due to extenders for percent
alive (P=O.Ol, motility (P References