The Effect of Male Age on the Quality of Bali Cattle Fresh Semen

Abstract

This research was conducted by conducting experiments in UPTD laboratory of Livestock and Livestock Feeding Agricultural Service of Sulawesi Barat Province. The purpose of this research is to compare the age of males during March to April 2013. The results of this research are expected to be used as a guideline for the use of Bali Cattle research as a semen producer based on the age of livestock that can be used as one of the criteria in the selection of prospective semen producing males. The research material is fresh semen of Bali Cattle with requirement of 70% individual motility. The research method used is observation method by observing the fresh semen quality of Bali Cattle research which has been classified into 3 groups based on age 3, 5, and 6 years. The data analysis used is the analysis of the variety and the design is Completely Randomized Design. The results showed that the quality of fresh semen in the three age groups (3, 5, and 6 years) where volume: 5.2 ± 1.2; 6.4 ± 1.1; And 6.4 ± 0.8 ml, color: milk, white, pH: 6,4 ± 0,1; 6.4 ± 0.1; And 6.3 ± 0.1, consistency: concentrated; Medium; Concentrated and concentrated, concentrations: 1909.6 ± 418.8; 1223.3 ± 220.8; And 1790.8 ± 240.5 million / ml, and 92.5 ± 2.9%, abnormality: 4.4 ± 1.2; 4.3 ± 1.2; And 3.3 ± 1.0%. The conclusions of this research indicate that the age of males gives a significant effect on the fresh semen volume, fresh semen concentration, gives a very significant effect on fresh semen concentration and does not have a significant effect on fresh semen sperm abnormalities. And a male of Bali Cattle age 3-6 years old in UPTD Livestock Feeding and Animal Feed Agricultural Service of Sulawesi Province has good semen quality for Artificial Insemination.

The The Effect of Age and Breed on The Quality of Bull Semen in The Regional Artificial Insemination Centre

“…Good quality semen is produced by superior bulls with good reproductive performance. Apart from the influence of genetic traits, it is stated that the qualified semen of the superior bulls can be influenced by several factors, such as the bull's age, temperature and season, ejaculation frequency, and nutrition (Nirwana and Suparman, 2017). Bulls with poor reproductive performance can affect the quality of the semen produced.…”

“…Furthermore, the age of bulls is one of the important factors that influence semen quality (Fuerst-Waltl et al, 2006;Mahmood et al, 2014;Argiris et al, 2018). Nirwana and Suparman (2017) reported that age can have a significant effect on semen for Bali bulls.…”

Evaluation of Bali Cattle Semen Quality During Cryopreservation with Coconut Water-Based Extenders

“…178x10 6 spermatozoa per ml (Novianti et al 2020). Sperm concentration is influenced by the age of the bulls (Nirwana and Suparman 2017;Bayu et al 2020) and the spermatozoa progressive motility in this study was 75%.…”

“…The Progressive semen motility in this study was higher than Bali cattle raised in Nusa Tenggara Timur with an individual movement average of 70% (MataHine et al 2014) and Balinese cattle raised in Sulawesi (Nirwana and Suparman 2017). This difference in progressive motility is caused by the age of different males (Bayu et al 2019).…”

Feeding Treatment Based on Palm Oil Byproduct and Supplementation to Support Reproduction Performance of Bull

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