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Filtering by: Committee Member Nakaue, Harry Subject Broilers (Poultry) -- Artificial insemination

Factors affecting semen quality and their effects on the fertilizing ability of broiler breeder spermatozoa using a fluorometric assay

Creator:

Bootwalla, Salim Mohsin

Abstract:

Three distinct studies using an ethidium bromidedigitonin fluorometric assay were conducted to determine if the fertilizing ability of individually caged broiler breeder males (BBM) could be enchanced by nutrition, breeding and semen extender viscosity. The first study evaluated the effects on the spermatozoal quality of BBM by feeding corn-soybean meal...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

extended to Drs. George H. Arscott, Harry S. Nakaue, William D. Hohenboken, and David R. Thomas for their