Use of diluent garlic extract supplementation in improving semen quality of roosters

Abstract EN

This study was designed to examine whether garlic extract (GE) supplementation could improve rooster sperm motility, viability, and morphology during in vitro storage for different periods (24,48 or72 h).

A total of 42 White Leghorn roosters, 22 - wk old randomly divided into 6 experimental pens (7 roosters each) were used in this study.

The experimental groups were as follows : Tl = fresh, undiluted semen (control); T2 - semen diluted 1:1 with Lake diluent (LD) alone; T3 = semen diluted 1:1 with GE alone, while T4, T5 and T6 represented semen samples diluted 1:1 with LD and supplemented with 1,2 or 4 ml GE/100 ml of diluent, respectively.